{"id":183,"date":"2008-04-05T15:35:04","date_gmt":"2008-04-05T18:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recoletacemetery.com\/?p=183"},"modified":"2008-04-05T15:35:04","modified_gmt":"2008-04-05T18:35:04","slug":"liga-patriotica-argentina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/recoletacemetery.com\/?p=183","title":{"rendered":"172. liga patri\u00f3tica argentina"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the aftermath of the 1909 assassination of Ram\u00f3n Falc\u00f3n & Juan Alberto Lartigau<\/a>, the upper class in Argentina began to pay attention. Wary of what they considered disruptive elements to society, immigration laws were modified to exile anyone committing a crime in the name of anarchism, Marxism or any other -ism<\/em> convenient. Universal male suffrage in 1912 further shifted politics away from the upper class when Radical candidate Hip\u00f3lito Yrigoyen was elected in 1916. The 1917 Communist Revolution & growing strength of labor unions only intensified what the upper class saw as a challenge to their power.<\/p>\n

When a metalworkers strike spiraled out of control at the end of 1918, violence broke out between police, strikers & scabs hired to keep production going. Certain groups thought the violence originated from the Jewish community & a pogrom was carried out. The army had to intervene to restore order with a final death toll of about 1,000 people & another 4,000 injured. The 1919 Semana Tr\u00e1gica<\/em> would go down in history as one of the most violent working class conflicts in the nation’s history.<\/p>\n

Citizens who took part in repressing union activity during the Semana Tr\u00e1gica<\/em> later formed an extra-governmental organization to maintain order: the Liga Patri\u00f3tica Argentina<\/em>. With a collective identity of “Argentine-ness,” they proposed to do what the government or police could not: prohibit erosion of the current order & stop all those foreign ideas from entering the country. Good luck with that. How can you argue with the following logic?<\/p>\n

Cien a\u00f1os de virtudes fundaron la civilizaci\u00f3n argentina y la historia de nuestro siglo XIX, la exaltaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s bella de la conciencia de un pueblo dispuesto a ser grande. Todo ese pasado de honor no puede alterarse por la perfidia de gente reci\u00e9n llegada trayendo en el alma la derrota de sus vilezas.<\/em><\/p>\n

Argentine civilization & our 19th-century history was founded on one hundred years of virtue, the most beautiful exaltation of the consciousness of a people with a desire to be great. All that honorable past cannot be altered by the treachery of recently arrived people bringing in their soul the path to vileness.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why would any of this be important in Recoleta Cemetery? Because many people buried inside were also members of the LPA. Just look for the plaques. Chemist & sanitation engineer Pedro Arata<\/a> belonged to the group. So did author \u00c1ngel de Estrada<\/a>. Others were examples for the LPA to follow such President Manuel Quintana<\/a> who survived an attempt on his life by an anarchist:<\/p>\n

\"Pedro<\/p>\n

\"Recoleta<\/p>\n

\"Manuel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the aftermath of the 1909 assassination of Ram\u00f3n Falc\u00f3n & Juan Alberto Lartigau, the upper class in Argentina began to pay attention. Wary of…<\/p>\n

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