{"id":483069,"date":"2025-09-16T08:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/70-years-after-the-coup-against-peron-peronism-is-the-great-alternative-to-the-far-right-milei\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T08:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T12:05:07","slug":"70-years-after-the-coup-against-peron-peronism-is-the-great-alternative-to-the-far-right-milei","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/international\/70-years-after-the-coup-against-peron-peronism-is-the-great-alternative-to-the-far-right-milei\/","title":{"rendered":"70 years after the coup against Per\u00f3n, Peronism is the great alternative to the far-right Milei"},"content":{"rendered":"Buenos Aires.-<\/strong> Seventy years after the military coup against the then-president of Argentina, Juan Domingo Per\u00f3n, who left on September 16, 1955, for a long exile, Peronism remains a political movement of global reference and today is the great alternative to the far-right Javier Milei.\n\nA faction of the Armed Forces<\/a> rose up that day against Per\u00f3n and assumed a de facto government that prohibited any mention of his figure, the Justicialist Party, and his partner, Eva Duarte, for almost two decades. Evita’s body was kidnapped and remained missing for years.\n\n\n

Read more: Trump sues The New York Times for $15 billion<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n“Between blood and time, I prefer time,” Per\u00f3n then pronounced when justifying his exile to avoid a massacre. That sentence influenced how this popular movement – born in the heat of other contemporaries such as the Brazilian Get\u00falio Vargas or the Mexican L\u00e1zaro C\u00e1rdenas – conceived itself and has endured to this day.\n\nThe first clash of Per\u00f3n was with the Catholic Church, to which a faction of the Army joined, pushed by the conservative elites, who did not look favorably upon how Per\u00f3n had become the leader of the working class. In this context, he was re-elected in 1951 as president.\n\nOn June 16, 1955, Navy aircraft identified with Catholic sectors bombed the Plaza de Mayo and the presidential residence in an attempt to kill Per\u00f3n. Consequently, they murdered more than 300 people; and three months later the military overthrew him.\n\n\n

What was and what is Peronism?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nHistorian Camila Perochena, from the Torcuato Di Tella University, defines, in statements to EFE, Peronism as “a very disruptive mass political movement in Argentine history and one of the movements that inaugurates the populist tradition in Latin America.”\n\nMart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez, political analyst and essayist, assures EFE that, throughout its history, Peronism is “the force that best understands the relationship between the political system and society”.\n\n“Per\u00f3n does something different from what had been done, he proposes that the labor movement should be integrated and not repressed because, for him, that was the way to avoid a communist revolution”, <\/em><\/strong>explains Perochena.\n\nPer\u00f3n began in politics as Secretary of Labor during the military government of Edelmiro Farrell and, from that position, established a relationship with the unions and promoted labor rights.\n\nAfter being imprisoned due to internal disputes within that Government, on October 17, 1945, hundreds of thousands of workers took to the streets to demand his freedom, which catapulted him to win the presidential elections that year and begin a transformative government.\n\nJuan Manuel Abal Medina, political scientist and former Chief of Staff during the Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez government (2007-2015), explained to EFE his interpretation of the Peronist phenomenon: “What was achieved in Europe in terms of social equality over decades, Peronism did it in less than ten years. In a very short time, the field worker went from being the property of the boss to living with him on the beaches where they now vacationed equally.”\n\n\n

A Democratic Party<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nFaced with the new Argentina that emerged, the economic and political sectors opposed to Peronism tried various strategies to control it: from proscribing it and persecuting and assassinating its militants, as happened during the last dictatorship (1976-1983), to co-opting it to provide it with a neoliberal program, as was the case of the Presidency of Carlos Menem (1989-1999).\n\nThis movement always came to power through the democratic path: Per\u00f3n in 1945, 1951 and 1973 (after his return to the country); Menem in 1989 and 1995; N\u00e9stor Kirchner in 2003; his wife Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez in 2007 and 2011; and Alberto Fern\u00e1ndez in 2019.\n\n“Peronism knows how to lose,” highlights analyst Mart\u00edn Rodr\u00edguez, recalling that it has also been defeated since the return of democracy to Argentina: Ra\u00fal Alfons\u00edn in 1983, Fernando De La R\u00faa in 1999, Mauricio Macri in 2015, and Javier Milei in 2023.\n\n“For anti-Peronists -adds Rodr\u00edguez- Peronism is a kind of long exception that one day has to end, but that’s what makes it the rule. Peronism is a subsystem of the Argentine political system.”\n\nAbal Medina adds the social factor that keeps the movement alive: “The unions were strengthened to defend the conquests of Peronism for that equality achieved in favor of the workers.”\n\n\n

More relevant than ever<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\nToday, the main opponent of the far-right Milei is in Peronism: in the recent legislative elections of the province of Buenos Aires, which brings together 40% of the population, the coalition led by Peronist governor Axel Kicillof defeated La Libertad Avanza by more than 13 points, which unleashed a crisis of confidence in the markets and put the national government in check.\n\nKicillof is now emerging as a possible candidate to challenge Milei for the Presidency in 2027, while the leadership of the Justicialist Party remains in the hands of the influential Cristina Fern\u00e1ndez, who is serving a six-year sentence of house arrest for fraudulent administration of public works.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Buenos Aires.- Seventy years after the military coup against the then-president of Argentina, Juan Domingo Per\u00f3n, who left on September 16, 1955, for a long exile, Peronism remains a political movement of global reference and today is the great alternative to the far-right Javier Milei. A faction of the Armed Forces rose up that day […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":483070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[41902,42317,26509],"class_list":["post-483069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-international","tag-armed-forces","tag-attack-on-peron","tag-milei"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-21Fr","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/481e3b7103c415c357dbb7fd69045eae1a8d0f6cw.jpg","dum_api":{"author_name":"EFE","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/1200px-EFE_logo.svg-96x96.png","categories_name":["International"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/09\/481e3b7103c415c357dbb7fd69045eae1a8d0f6cw.jpg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=483069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/483070"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=483069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=483069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=483069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}