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SOSA, Pamela. “To order the province”. About Néstor Kirchner's charisma in Santa Cruz (1991-1996). Perf. latinoam. [online]. 2018, vol.26, n.51, pp.37-61. ISSN 0188-7653.  https://doi.org/10.18504/pl2651-002-2018.

In this article, we reconstruct one of the main representation strategies and sources of power for Néstor Kichner’s leadership in Santa Cruz, Argentina between 1991 and 1996: his consolidation as a “warrantor of order and stability”. In second stance, we will analyze the social conditions that explain the success of this strategy of representation. Mainly, its affinity with a set of social attributes of the province defined as part of the “culture of suffering” and the ability of the Frente para la Victoria as an organization to embody analog values. We use for the making of this article mostly semi-structured interviews and analysis of journalistic archives. This work is a valuable study on the forms of power construction of the Frente para la Victoria since its origins, in the early 1990, a previous experience to its access of the national government in 2003.

Palavras-chave : Néstor Kirchner; order and discipline; political conflict; political culture; Frente para la Victoria; peronismo; Santa Cruz.