Juan Carlos Ongania - Speech on the Cordobazo in Argentina 1969

Bs. As .: In the face of the events that occurred in the country, especially in Cordoba, the strike of the last Friday of the CGT and supposedly the march of the Argentine Revolution made a message to the people the president of the Nation, Lieutenant General Juan Carlos Ongania . In his speech he expresses: - "When in peace and with optimism the Republic marched towards its best achievements, the subversion, in the ambush, prepared its coup.The tragic events of Cordoba respond to the actions of an extremist force organized to produce the urban insurrection There they are reflected, in victims and in blood, in smoke and fire, in barricades and destruction, the only purposes of the insurgents.The slogan was to paralyze a thriving people who seek their destiny, the civil war at any price. Those who put more fury on the embarrassing task of destroying our own, the outdated structures that seek no other possibility than violence, the interests that see losing their control over the Argentine destiny, and the discontents that never fail, all contributed to the climate for the explosion, none of them wanted to burn Cordoba, none of them tried to destroy the essential forms of our way of life. It is emotional or discontented, or other similar causes that can and should be considered and solved, the driving forces of the Córdoba fire. - The intentions of the organizers of chaos shouted. When citizens were warned about the events that were taking place, no one gave the official expression of the government the weight given to the events. They started in Corrientes with a student demonstration. Produced the victim, the sympathy that awakens the youth cut was the wick that came close to the long-prepared powder keg. -The tributes have not been lacking, except for those who gave their lives to save the community of unleashed terror. The police barbarity has been condemned, but the police do not raise the barricades, do not fire the shops or unleash the panic among a defenseless citizenship. The energetic attitude of the security forces and the forced and precise intervention of the armed forces, ordered when there was no other alternative, have controlled an episode that could have been worse, if not fail, in Campo de Mayo, the attempt to incorporate to the insurrection the complete armament of a regiment. The revolution does not ask for revenge, but it does justice. Although the shadows hide many of those responsible for the ravages and deaths of Cordoba, those who have been condemned must bear the consequences.
Date: 6/5/1969
Duration: 7 minutes 47 seconds
Code: BG-0327

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