''Cabildo'' is an
Argentine magazine which is considered the main press organ of
nationalist
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Catholicism
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in the country. First published in the 1970s and then inactive during most of the 1990s, the magazine has become notorious for its
xenophobic
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and
anti-Semitic editorial line.
History
The first issue of ''Cabildo'' was published on 17 May 1973,
eight days before the democratically elected
president
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Héctor Cámpora
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took office after several years of military
dictatorship
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. The founders were far-right intellectuals.
[ During the initial stage the magazine consistently demanded the return to military rule through a new ]coup d'état
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. Not long afterwards, President Cámpora resigned, leaving the way open for Juan Perón to return to the country from exile and be elected president. After Perón's death, the government of his wife and vice-president Isabel Perón ordered ''Cabildo'' to be closed down on three occasions.[Jorge Saborido, 2004]
El antisemitismo en la Historia argentina reciente: la revista Cabildo y la conspiración judía
And finally it was closed in 1975.
The magazine returned in August 1976 after the military coup that started the National Reorganization Process, and became almost regularly a monthly publication. The June 1977 issue, however, was retired from circulation by the government, and the July issue was cancelled, because ''Cabildo'' had covered the kidnapping of journalist Jacobo Timerman
Jacobo Timerman (6 January 1923 – 11 November 1999), was a Soviet-born Argentine publisher, journalist, and author, who is most noted for his confronting and reporting the atrocities of the Argentine military regime's Dirty War during a perio ...
, which the dictatorship wanted to pass as a legal detention.
The magazine was notoriously anti-Semitic and supported the idea of a global Zionist
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conspiracy and blamed Jew
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s in Argentina for the violence of left-wing guerrilla insurgents, employing common stereotypes of Jews and well-known conspiracy theories
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to accuse Jews of funding Marxist organizations.
''Cabildo'' continued being published after the return to democratic rule in 1983. Among its frequent collaborators was General Ramón Camps
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, who lead the Buenos Aires Provincial Police
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and was responsible for committing multiple crimes (including 32 murders), for which he was eventually amnestied.
Since 1989, the critical economic situation of Argentina caused the magazine to be released irregularly. In 1991 it was discontinued, but it was restarted in 1998 with part of the original staff and some new collaborators.
''Cabildo'' continues being published. Its editorial line focuses on current topics, such as the reproductive health
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policies of President Néstor Kirchner
Néstor Carlos Kirchner (; 25 February 195027 October 2010) was an Argentine lawyer and politician who served as the President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, Governor of Santa Cruz Province from 1991 to 2003, Secretary General of UNASUR and ...
, and his sometimes tense relations with the Argentine Catholic Church. It supports ultra-conservative (pre-Vatican II
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) Catholic teachings, and criticizes the human rights
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stance of the government with regard to the crimes committed by the armed forces during the Dirty War
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. The magazine also advertises courses and seminaries with a fascist ideological orientation, usually held on Catholic Church facilities. A review of a 2005 issue in the leftist newspaper ''Página/12'' claimed that ''Cabildo'' "works like the repressed unconscious
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that says what the Catholic right thinks."[Página/12. 11 December 2005]
"Cabildo", o el retorno de lo reprimido conservador y católico
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