Ricardo Obregón Cano (April 4, 1917 – June 19, 2016)
[Alejandro Dorrego, Victoria Azurduy, Rodolfo Puiggrós: „El caso argentino: hablan sus protagonistas“, Prisma 1977] was an Argentine
Justicialist Party
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politician. Born in
Río Cuarto,
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, he was
Governor of Córdoba from May 25, 1973, to February 28, 1974. A left-wing
Peronist
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, he was deposed by a police coup in 1974, which was later backed by
Juan Perón
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.
Governor of Córdoba
Obregón Cano was a left-wing Peronist, close to
Héctor José Cámpora,
Juan Perón
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's delegate and President from May 1973 to June 1973. He was elected as candidate of the Peronist ''Frente Justicialista de Liberación Nacional'' (FREJULI) during the
March 1973 general election, with a 53.3% share of the vote, along with his vice-governor Atilio Lopez, close to the ''62 Organizaciones Peronistas'' reform movement in the trade unions.
[Alicia Servetto]
''El derrumbe temprano de la democracia en Córdoba: Obregón Cano y el golpe policial (1973–1974)
'', ''Estudios Sociales'' n°17, Segundo Semestre 1999, revised paper of a 1997 Conference at the National University of La Pampa
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, 19 pages His victory, however, had been the left-wing Peronists' victory against the orthodox Peronists. Indeed, representatives of the latter,
Julio Antún (''Mesa Redonda Permanente Peronista'') and
Raúl Bercovich Rodriguez
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(''Unidad y Lealtad''), had led a rival electoral list against Obregón Cano in 1973, but had been defeated in the primary elections by 60% of the votes.
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Although the FREJULI had obtained support from the ]Peronist Youth
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and the Montoneros
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during the electoral campaign, as well as from members of the Intransigent Radical Civic Union
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and from the Popular Unitary Action Movement
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, Obregón Cano had initiated a shift to the center, allying himself with the Radical Civic Union
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(UCR) (signing a compromise pact, or ''Acta de Compromiso'') and several Christian Democrats
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.[ Obregón Cano nominated many figures from outside the Peronist movement and the Justicialist Party in the regional administration, taking in, for instance, members from the UCR, the Christian-democracy or the ]Democratic Party Democratic Party most often refers to:
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.[
As a forthcoming sign of this alliance, ]José Antonio Allende
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, an important member of the Christian Democratic Party
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, had been elected in 1973 as a national senator for the FREJULI.[ This shift to the center led Obregón Cano's administration to be opposed simultaneously by the revolutionary Peronist left and by the political, and trade-unionist, Peronist right.][ In Córdoba, the latter was represented by Julio Antún, ]Raúl Bercovich Rodriguez
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, Alejo Simó
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and others.[
During his administration, daily demonstrations organized by the Peronist youth affected Córdoba in support of social and revolutionary process; the return of Peron had been the signal of end of years of dictatorship and offered the possibility of initiating a new phase.][ On the other hand, ]José Ignacio Rucci
José Ignacio Rucci (5 March 1924 – 25 September 1973) was an Argentine politician and union leader, appointed general secretary of the CGT (General Confederation of Labour) in 1970. Close to the Argentine president Juan Perón, and a chief r ...
, leader of the CGT union and of the Peronist Right, claimed to wrestle back control of the local CGT section from other rival groups, such as Atilio Lopez's UTA legalist tendency, leader of ''Luz y Fuerza'' Agustín Tosco
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who claimed a democratic and pluralist unionism, or the "classists", headed by René Salamanca
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's SMATA union and advocates of a traditional class-struggle viewpoint.[ After Héctor Cámpora's resignation from the Presidency in June 1973, the offensive headed by Rucci's orthodox tendency grew stronger.][ Several bombings affected SMATA and ''Luz y Fuerza'', in a foreword of the "]Dirty War
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".[ These unions conflicts were "fixed" by a normalizatory Congress, organized by Labour Minister ]Ricardo Otero
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and called for on February 28, 1974, the same day as the police coup against Obregón Cano.[
]
Police coup
Quickly losing Perón's support, as right-wing Peronism was regaining power, Obregón Cano was thus toppled in a coup known as the ''navarrazo'', led by the province's police chief, Antonio Navarro, and after which the vice-governor Atilio Lopez was soon killed, allegedly by the '' Alianza Anticomunista Argentina''. Peron validated the coup[ which was also supported by Julio Antún.][ On the other hand, although the ]Montoneros
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of Cordoba requested Obregón Cano's return to his functions, it also harshly criticized the governor for its "weakness" in not supporting itself on "popular mobilization" and believing in "bureaucratic arrangements".[ According to historian Servetto, "the Peronist right... thus stimulated the intervention of security forces to resolve internal conflicts of Peronism".][ Obregón Cano was replaced by ]Mario Agodino
Mario Dante Agodino (c. 1917 – 1975) was Provisional Governor of Córdoba, Argentina
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. Obregón Cano then joined the Authentic Peronist Party, a left-wing splinter group from the Justicialist Party.
Later life and death
In 1985, after the return of civilian rule, Cano was charged of "illicit association" with the Montoneros and sentenced to ten years of prison due to the theory of the two demons, and was jailed, ironically, in Devoto Prison, the same place where the generals judged during the Trial of the Juntas
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were kept. Obregón Cano was finally released in 1989. He died on June 19, 2016, aged 99.Falleció Ricardo Obregón Cano, ex gobernador de Córdoba
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References
See also
*Center Region (Argentina)
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(agreement signed with other governors)
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1917 births
2016 deaths
People from Río Cuarto, Córdoba
Governors of Córdoba Province, Argentina
Justicialist Party politicians