19 Facts About Arturo Jauretche

Arturo Martin Jauretche was an Argentine writer, politician, and philosopher.

Arturo Jauretche sympathized with the new model of social integration promoted by the Radical Civic Union and allied himself with the radical faction of Hipolito Yrigoyen, the so-called personalistas.

Arturo Jauretche was influenced by the poet and Tango lyricist Homero Manzi, whose working-class appeal struck Jauretche, himself of rural origin, as a positive political strategy.

In 1928, when Yrigoyen assumed his second mandate following the interlude of Marcelo T de Alvear, Jauretche was appointed to the civil service, though it was not long before the Argentine army unseated Yrigoyen in a coup, setting off the Decada Infame.

Arturo Jauretche joined the armed struggle against the coup, and subsequently opposed the regime with intense political action.

Around 1940 Arturo Jauretche broke with Dellepiane and del Mazo, who realigned themselves with the UCR.

Raul Scalabrini Ortiz, who had always shared a similar ideology, affiliated himself with the party, and along with Arturo Jauretche formed a double leadership.

Arturo Jauretche would hold the position until 1951, when Mercante's falling out with Peron led Jauretche to abandon it.

Arturo Jauretche did not return to the public scene until 1955, when the Revolucion Libertadora led to Peron's ouster.

Arturo Jauretche founded the periodical El Lider and the weekly El '45 to defend what he called "the ten years of popular government", and to excoriate the political, economic, and social activities of the de facto regime.

Arturo Jauretche criticized these allusions as the prejudices of a middle class sensibility irritated by the eruption of new participants in a political environment which had been exclusively run by the bourgeoisie since the generacion del '80.

Arturo Jauretche challenged, in a friendly letter to the scientist and writer Ernesto Sabato, the notion that the middle classes had embraced Peronism out of resentment towards the wealthy:.

Arturo Jauretche's proposal was one of integration, whereby the common interest of the bourgeoisie and proletariat would be served by the development of a solid national economy.

In Los profetas del odio, Arturo Jauretche identified the chief enemies of national development as the liberal and cosmopolitan intelligentsia, whose fascination with European culture led them to apply European solutions uncritically to Argentine problems, without consideration for historical differences and the continents' distinct places in the international community.

Arturo Jauretche combined his own interpretation of contemporary reality with the nascent techniques of historical revisionism.

In 1959 Arturo Jauretche published National Policy and Historical Revisionism, in which he elaborated on his own place at the center of the deeply divided revisionist movement, speaking as much about the grass-roots movement he made possible as about actual historical questions.

Nevertheless, after Frondizi's election, Arturo Jauretche was severely critical of his development program and his pursuit of foreign investment, particularly with respect to petroleum.

In 1961, during a bitterly contested election in which the Peronist vote was divided among various candidates, Arturo Jauretche endorsed the socialist Alfredo Palacios.

When his political career was cut short, Arturo Jauretche returned to literature.