A la búsqueda de un orden estable. La revista Carta Política, de la muerte de Perón al abandono del Pacto Social (1974)

Abstract

In this article we analyze the editorial position of the liberal-conservative orientation magazine Carta Política face of the political scene inaugurated with the death of President Juan Domingo Perón on July 1, 1974. Published for the first time in June 1974, it was characterized by expressing an "expert" analytical perspective, invested with "seriousness", based on the intellectual trajectories of its collaborators. In this paper we focus mainly on how the publication evaluated the process of abandoning the Social Pact, the economic policy that had inaugurated Peronism in its return to power in 1973, and the readjustment of social actors against the new reality pos-Perón. Likewise, we will study its position in relation to the new government of its successor María Estela (Isabel) Martínez de Perón, the spiraling process of armed violence and the role that the Armed Forces began to assume in this context in the repressive task. The main hypothesis of the work is that for the magazine, the Social Pact did not ensure by itself the mechanisms of social reconciliation that boosted it in its origin, so the economy had to disengage from its regulations to ensure productive capacity and business profitability, but maintaining institutional stability as an indispensable prerequisite.

Keywords

• Peronism
• magazine Carta Política
• Social Pact
• Gelbard
• Argentine press