The exile of workers of the Federación Obrera Provincial to the Lavalle desert during the 1919 teachers' strike in Mendoza
Keywords:
Teachers strike, Radicalismo, Exile, FORA, Mendoza 1919Abstract
This article adresses the exile to the desert and the mountain range of a group of leaders of the Federación Obrera Provincial during the conflict between the incipient teachers' unionism and the radical government of José Néstor Lencinas in 1919 in the province of Mendoza, Argentina. The repressive actions on the part of the State reached a peak of violence with the kidnapping by the police and the deportation of workers' leaders to the Lavalle desert for almost a week. The paper analyzes this event as a turning point of the workers' struggles in local history and its link with the increase of state violence. It is proposed to fill a thematic gap in local historiography by analyzing testimonies of protagonists and articles from the press of the time in order to build a narrative that allows to revert this situation of oblivion. The analysis of the facts is complemented with the incorporation of conceptual contributions linked to the categories of exile, desert, among others.
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