2024-04-27 10:15:00
On April 27, 1974, there was talk of the award to the Soviet Union of the provision of turbines for the Salto Grande dam; of the expectation generated by the career of Carlos Reutemann in Spain (the grand prix following his debut victory in South Africa) and, above all, terrible train crash that had happened in Boulogne, with two dead and eight injured.
All this in publicin the newspapers, on While Street, in secret, the government of Juan Peron sanctioned a decree that marked a change of direction regarding the attitude towards the actions of the guerrilla groups. If trust with one’s own combative wing had been shattered with the murder of Jose Ignatius Ruccithe attack by a command of the People’s Revolutionary Army (ERP) once morest the Azul regiment, in January of tumultuous 1974, had exhausted the patience of the President.
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That episode was the trigger for the secret decree 1302/74 what, exactly 50 years agoapproved the directives to develop the plans called “Topo” y “Yacare“based on a baptized war hypothesis”Bishop“. At that point Perón had already definitively concluded that the armed groups, both those that were part of the movement itself and those of Trotskyist origin, were seeking “the seizure of power to modify the multi-party democratic system of life“This was defined in the letter of the document itself, declassified more than four decades later, during the government of Mauricio Macri: It was published in the Official Gazette on May 26, 2017.
From the attack in Azul the secret decree
“Facts of this nature eloquently show the degree of danger and audacity of the terrorist groups that have been operating in the province of Buenos Aires due to the evident lack of understanding of its authorities. The Government of the People, respectful of the Constitution and the law, until today has been observing a restrained conduct in the face of these guerrilla excesses that nothing can justify in the situation that the Republic is experiencing“.
The intimates said that Perón the emotional overflow prowled when he uttered that phrase on television, on the night of January 20, 1974. If four months before the murder of a union leader Jose Ignacio Rucci, one of the men he most trusted, had hit him hard, the attack on the Azul garrison by the ERP it was a new blow.
In the speech the reference to the governor was clear Oscar Bidegainfrom the left wing of the movement, who had taken office on the day of the election of Hector Camporain 1973. Bidegain would resign under pressure six days following the assault on the Azul barracks.
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Azul was not just any military headquarters: it housed the 10th Tank Cavalry Regiment and the 1st Armored Artillery Group of the Argentine Army. That is to say that the guerrilla attack, which in addition to the coup d’effect sought to supply itself with weapons, had been really ambitious. In the raid the attackers killed the head of the garrison, Colonel Arthur Gayand his wife, Hilda Cazaux. The head of GA 1, lieutenant colonel Jorge Roberto Ibarzabalwas taken prisoner and was later found murdered, with the body inside a metal closet.
Perón: “Everything has a limit”
“Everything has its limit. Tolerating for longer events like what happened in Azul, where a national institution is attacked with the most treacherous procedures, is clearly demonstrating that we are in the presence of true enemies of the country“Perón said that night, when a few hours had passed since the guerrillas surrendered.
Sanctioned three months later, secret decree 1302 maintained that narrative line. Word for word, he stated “eliminate violent and non-violent subversive actionsthe causes that cause them and to spiritually and materially consolidate the democratic regime as an area of integral realization of man.”
It was clear that although Perón had decided to act harshly, the plan It was designed to be applied legally and with a comprehensive approach. The proof was that it provided for the creation of an “inter-ministerial team” with the participation of six portfolios: Defense, Justice, Economy, Social Welfare, Labor and Culture and Education.
The decree defined a multisectoral plan “that provides for actions on violence, on its causes and that tends to strengthen the values of the democratic system.” It was not just regarding attacking the consequences.
As stated in the document itself, the plan had to be submitted to the Executive Branch before August 15, 1974. Perón did not get to see him because he died a month and a half earlier..
Only in April 1975, Isabel Peron would sign decree decree No. 993/75 to “put into force” the directive. In his stretch of government, with the so-called “annihilation decrees“, the general’s widow wrote her own chapter in history.
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