The Day Buenos Aires Burned: The 1919 Tragic Week

One week in January 1919, Buenos Aires erupted. A strike at the Vasena metalworks spiraled into a citywide pogrom, as police, military, and armed civilian brigades hunted down workers and Russian-Jewish immigrants. Lucas and Luna walk through the Semana Trágica, from the first picket lines to the death squads, the role of the anarchist FORA and the socialist daily La Vanguardia, the tangled response of President Hipólito Yrigoyen, and the lasting scar it left on Argentina's labor movement. They parse the casualty counts, the anti-Semitic undercurrent, and the rumored 'Soviet' plot that never was. What does this forgotten massacre tell us about the limits of reform in the Radical era?

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