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América Latina en la historia económica
On-line version ISSN 2007-3496Print version ISSN 1405-2253
Abstract
BALSA, Javier. Discourse and Agrarian Policies in Argentina, 1920-1955. Am. Lat. Hist. Econ [online]. 2012, vol.19, n.3, pp.98-128. ISSN 2007-3496.
This article analyzes the consolidation of an agrarist discourse critique of the latifundio in the Argentine public opinion and how this had impact on the agrarian reality. In 1921, the chacareros' fight achieved the first law that regulated tenure contracts. In the next decades, even some political figures of the Argentine conservatism begun to assimilate the critique agrarist discursivity and they took some appropriate, but limited measures that, anyway, contributed to the legitimation of the chacareros' demands. With the military coup of 1943 and the promotion of the political figure of Perón, critique agrarism became a real political strategy, until from 1948 when we attend to a political and discursive turn of Peron's policies, that stopped the official colonization process and reduced the amount of agrarian measures.
Keywords : agrarism; colonization; Argentina; Perón.