A little about
Argentina
Bronca Buenos Aires
reprinted from whatmusic.com

Beginning in the 1960s and throughout the 1970s the political struggle in both Argentina and Chile became intense.


In Argentina two presidents: Frondizi (1959-1962) and Illia (1962-1966), were ousted by the military because they compromised themselves, allowing the Peronistas, (outlawed by the military), to win elections on several levels.


In June 1966, the regime put in place a more direct dictatorship under general Onganía which confronted unrest and rebellion, the largest and strongest insurrection occurring in the important industrial city of Córdoba on 29 May 1969. The entire city of near one million people went on strike protesting the dictatorship; this was known as “El Cordobazo” . The cover of this album is a depiction of that struggle.

It all started in 1966. Until then the only thing the Argentineans knew about violence was what they read in the newspapers. But then in the course of one of the habitual military “coup d´etats” something changed, and the violence that had been contained for so long exploded.


That fact was imprinted forever on our history by “El Cordobazo”


“La Bronca” [the anger] of a society that lost their freedom and even worse, the dignity of their own lives and work is what I’ve tried – humbly – to reflect in this work.


Today, that “Bronca” [anger] is still present even though we have twenty years of democracy and freedom behind us. The importance of social dignity and work has never been taken into account; the immense debt we have towards these two things has never been paid or acknowledged.

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For a quick list of important events
in Argentinean history see
caguirre's outline at the uoregon.edu
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