The Cospa

A Political Experience of the Argentine Exile in Mexico

Bibliographic Data

ID4501567
AuthorsPablo Yankelevich (0000-0002-5466-1395, Mexico's National School of Anthropology and History and a member of the research system of the Mexican Academy of Sciences, corresponding author)
Year2007
Volume34
Issue4
Pages68-80
Publication date2007-07-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-582X • E-ISSN: 1552-678X
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0094582x07302947
OpenAlexW1965167928
LanguageEN
Citations received3

The Argentine exiles who arrived in Mexico in the 1970s, primarily left-leaning Peronists and supporters of the Montoneros, established a broad solidarity network that provided substantial support for new arrivals in the country. The harmony of these beginnings was, however, short-lived. The Montoneros' declaration of war on the Martínez de Perón government in 1975 divided the exile community. The Comité de Solidaridad con el Pueblo Argentino (COSPA), founded in 1976, had a strong militant tone from the beginning and became a dogmatic appendage of the Montoneros' political project. The "independent" sector of the community, critical of the armed organizations and committed to a plurality of opinions, produced the Comisión Argentina de Solidaridad (CAS) in the following year. With the failure of the Montoneros' military counteroffensive and the death of dozens of militants, the CAS became the main exile organization, a mosaic that reproduced the various perspectives that nourished the Argentine exile community

Art · Community organizing · Economic history · Harmony (color) · Humanities · Militant · Political science · Politics · Solidarity · History · Law · Memory, violence, and history · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America

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