- Cabildo (magazine)
"Cabildo" is an Argentine magazine which is considered the main press organ of nationalist Catholicism in the country. First published in the 1970s and then inactive during most of the 1990s, the magazine has become notorious for its xenophobic and anti-Semitic editorial line.
The first issue of "Cabildo" was published on
17 May 1973 , eight days before the democratically elected presidentHéctor Cámpora took office after several years of militarydictatorship . In this stage the magazine consistently demanded the return to military rule through a newcoup d'état . Not long afterwards, President Cámpora resigned, leaving the way open forJuan Perón to return to the country from exile and be elected president. After Perón's death, the government of his wife and vice-presidentIsabel Perón ordered "Cabildo" to be closed down on three occasions.Jorge Saborido, 2004. [http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/revistas/ghi/11328312/articulos/RCHA0404110209A.PDF El antisemitismo en la Historia argentina reciente: la revista Cabildo y la conspiración judía] (PDF).]The magazine returned after the military coup of 1976 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 thekidnapping of journalistJacobo Timerman , which the dictatorship wanted to pass as a legal detention.The magazine was notoriously anti-Semitic and supported the idea of a global Zionist conspiracy and blamed
Jew s in Argentina for the violence of left-wingguerrilla insurgents, employing commonstereotype s of Jews and well-known conspiracy theories to accuse Jews of funding Marxist organizations. [Marguerite Feitlowitz, quoted by Leonardo Senkman, 1989. [http://www.tau.ac.il/eial/IV_1/feitlowitz.htm El antisemitismo en la Argentina] .]"Cabildo" continued being published after the return to democratic rule in 1983. Among its frequent collaborators was General
Ramón Camps , former head of theBuenos Aires Provincial Police and guilty of 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 re-started 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 policies of PresidentNéstor Kirchner , and his sometimes tense relations with the Argentine Catholic Church. It supports ultra-conservative (pre-Vatican II) Catholic teachings, and criticizes thehuman rights stance of the government with regards to the crimes committed by the armed forces during theDirty War . 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 that says what the Catholic right thinks." [Página/12. 11 December 2005. [http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-60354-2005-12-11.html "Cabildo", o el retorno de lo reprimido conservador y católico] .]References
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