Thinking about scaling-up of violence and violence on scale. Frames of the so-called “anti- subversive struggle”. Bahía Blanca, 1974/1976

Abstract

From the beginning of 1974, the citizens of Bahia Blanca suffered situations of repressive violence that took university students and professors, workers and worker delegates, leftist and left Peronism activists, as their victims. In this article we propose to reconstruct part of this repressive framework that struck the city during the years before the coup of 1976. Our goal is to characterize the state and paramilitary violence that -founded in the “fight against subversion”-, printed on terror in the streets of Bahia Blanca and among specific social sectors that suffered it directly. In this article we propose not only a historical reconstruction of some key aspects of political violence between 1974-1976, but also to clarify what are the new issues that we can illuminate by reducing the scale of observation.