Los años setenta en las memorias históricas de los actores agrarios pampeanos

Entre omisiones, miradas fragmentadas y reivindicación del orden

Abstract

This paper analyses the historical memories of agricultural actors in the Pampas region during the 1970s, with a special focus on the last military dictatorship. From the perspective of memory as a field of dispute, it examines the narratives constructed by agricultural actors and how they are influenced by public discourse and lived or transmitted experiences. Based on interviews conducted between 2023 and 2025 in small and medium-sized towns in the province of Buenos Aires, the study reveals the absence of a shared ‘agricultural memory’: fragmentary accounts predominate, in which rural and/or sectoral specificity barely appears. The democratic period from 1973 to 1976 is largely forgotten, despite the intense agrarian conflict that characterised it. As for the dictatorship, the narratives are distinguished by their lack of condemnation of the military regime, their vindication of the order imposed during the period, and their insistence on the supposed difference between the experience in large and small cities. In relation to public discourse, liberal-conservative sentiments and some neoliberal inflections are mainly identified, without a coherent historical narrative being structured. Both what is said and what is left unsaid highlight the uniqueness of local experiences and the persistent weight of anti-Peronism in the Pampas countryside.