Los escuadrones de la muerte argentinos y la degradación del cuerpo humano como acto de limpieza político-social (1973-1976)

Abstract

The article reflects on the role that the human body played in the repressive actions of the Argentine death squads during the Peronist government of the seventies (1973-1976), specifically the procedures and justifications by which the bodies of the victims were violated in search of terror and social discipline. Among the points that are analyzed are the ideological principles that sought to legitimize violence and death as a necessary practice of cleaning the subversive; as well as the characteristics of the vexation of the bodies, from their peri and post mortem degradation to their disposition in certain death sites.