What wanted to destroy the genocide? the history of Norwinco’s workers (Tucumán, Argentina, 1975-1976)

Abstract

The article reconstructs the story of a group of workers in a metallurgical factory in Tucumán (northern Argentina) who were victims of enforce desappearence between 1975 and 1976. The question that guides this reconstruction is why were these workers persecuted and attacked? The hypothesis that guides the work is that the selection of these victims is not fully explained with the criteria "militancy", "activism" or "opposition" because the Argentine genocide not only sought to destroy the different groups of the popular camp and their links, but also the conditions that made these groupings possible. And this is a left culture that had been forged in decades of struggle and that was expressed in a way of understanding reality in terms of social antagonism. In order to advance in this hypothesis the article characterizes the productive and community fabric to which this group of workers belonged, the organizational process that they knew how to build and the repression of which they were subjected.  The sourced that were used were: press, court documents, state reports and interviews.