The Mutual Enemy: Transnational Anti-Communist Networks in Mexico and Argentina

This paper will provide an interpretation of the intellectual and organizational connections, fostered during the 1960's, between radical right-wing activism in Mexico and Argentina, the type of Cold War imaginaries furnished by these groups, as well as their differentiated role and activities in their respective national contexts. A stress will be made in the ways in which, through formal (the World Anti-Communist League) and informal channels (clandestine operations, intellectual exchanges) these entities crafted a rather paradoxical form of Iberoamericanist, anti-Communist, right-wing solidarity, in which the potential tensions between the particularism of their respective nationalisms is bridged by anti-Communist ideology and religious integrism.