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From National Catholicism to a Global one. Catholics fighting for Human Rights in Argentina''s Seventies


Abstract

The paper will analyze, in the context of the Cold War and State Terrorism, the behavior of a network of religious people which coordinated with other NGOs and the State achieved the cessation of USA military aid to Argentine government in the Seventies, political asylum to some Argentine citizens and they did advocacy for other Argentines disappeared. The catholic social actors who were part of this network were those I call "modern catholics": the ones who incorporated as part of their identity some "note of secularization": "laicism" in politics, social pluralization and personal autonomy. The sources are in-deep interviews, Congressman Robert Drinan''s Archive, State Department - Argentine Embassy (Argentina Project), Cordoba State''s Memory Archives and Media from Cordoba (Argentina).