La memoria según Trelew

Abstract

In this article, the author exposes the singular characteristics of the illegal execution of political prisoners in an Argentinian military base in August 1972, known as ® Trelew's massacre ¼. He also presents the ways in which this massacre began to be remembered in the following years and the readings made by different leftist currents, which did not understood the new dimension of this event. Finally, he wonders for the relations between this crime and the state terror that will strike a little time later, as a contribution to think about the concept of ®State terrorism ¼.