El MST en Brasil y las organizaciones sociales kirchneristas en Argentina: Roles, identificación y relaciones dentro del conglomerado oficialista

Abstract

As part of a broader research that analyses and compares the government supporting factions [oficialismos] in the cases of Brasil [Lula] and Argentina [Kirchner] during 2005 and 2006, this article examines the relationship that some social organizations established in that period with those governments, be it as groups within them or as allies. In this sense, the Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra [MST], in Brazil, and organizations like Federación Tierra y Vivienda [FTV], Frente Transversal Nacional y Popular, Movimiento Evita and Libres del Sur, in Argentina, are some of the different subjects coexisting within two collectives in power -Lula's and Kirchner's governments- whose main aspects make it quite difficult for us to keep using classic conceptual labels such as "party in office" or even "party coalition in office". These oficialismos do not only comprise an heterogeneous range of individual actors with different sorts of political affiliation -and with their respective networks of territorial power- but they also include social organizations which have been involved in historical processes of wide mobilization and social struggle. ¿What sort of identities do these organizations claim as they support the government? ¿How do they conceive their own role within that collective -the oficialismo ? ¿How do they define that collective to which they belong or to which they associate? ¿What is their relationship with the president like?