Rails and economic policy during the last Argentinian civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983)

Abstract

This article addresses the impact of the economic policy implemented by the last civil-military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983) on the company Ferrocarriles Argentinos. The main objective is to analyze the policy deployed in the railway sector, in dialogue with the general process of state economic intervention during the administration of Martinez de Hoz at the Ministry of Economy. The proposed hypothesis is that such a policy was functional to the re-foundational purposes of the last dictatorship, essentially in relation to the role of the State in the field of economic intervention and to the classist retaliation undertook against the popular sectors. In order to develop our arguments we articulate the analysis of specific studies on the subject with statistical data from the General Court of Public Enterprises and statistical reports of the Ferrocarriles Argentinos company, among others.

Keywords

• Ferrocarriles
• Dictadura
• Política económica