Trelew in the History

Abstract

This paper analyzes the social, political and cultural significance of the escape from the Rawson Prison and the Trelew Massacre, in Argentina in the 1970s. To do this, we will try to identify and analyze the different historical dimensions that were articulated and emerged from both events. In this sense, an attempt will be made to demonstrate that the flight and the massacre linked processes of medium, short and long duration; processes that we will reconstruct from different procedures of historical contextualization. Simultaneously, we will try to evaluate the escape from the Rawson Prison and the Trelew Massacre as a “product” and “artifice” of a “cultural”, media, publishing and recording industry. In addition, an attempt will be made to introduce the escape and the massacre in the history of certain representations and long-standing ideas to, finally, evaluate the social impact that both events had between 1972 and 1974.