De la resistencia universitaria a la rebelión popular y del pacto democrático al terrorismo de Estado. Un análisis cuantitativo del movimiento estudiantil de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), 1966-1976

Abstract

In this paper we make a statistical analysis of the struggles of the student movement at the National University of Cordoba between the coup d’etat and the university intervention of 1966 and the establishment of the last civic-military dictatorship in 1976. We analyze the activation and reflux cycles, as well as the forms of action, the protagonists, the claims, the allies and the scenarios of the action. For this, work was carried out with an important database that meticulously recorded information about the confrontations assumed by the Cordoba students during this period. This database collects information from more than twenty Argentine newspapers, including those published in the City of Cordoba (La Voz del Interior, Los principios y Cordoba). In the conclusions of the article, the relevance in Cordoba of the three-year period between 1969 and 1971 is emphasized, given that it is the period where confrontations increase and student action becomes more disruptive, violence playing a prominent role. In addition, during these years there was the defeat of the dictatorship. Secondly, it is pointed out that it is not possible to establish a clear preeminence of any student block, even though the reformists carried out a greater number of actions. In that sense, we consider the disseminated statement about the preponderance of Peronism in the university ranks inappropriate for Cordoba and we suggest paying more attention to the evolution of student reformism.