Concordancia

Concordancia (1931–1943). Formed in the wake of the Revolution of 1930, the Concordancia was a coalition of three political factions that shared power during Argentina's Infamous Decade: the National Democratic Party, the Independent Socialist Party, and the Anti-Personalist wing of the Radical Civic Union. The most important of the three was the Anti-Personalists, who had two of their members—José Agustín Justo (1932–1938) and Roberto Ortiz (1938–1940)—elected president. During the Concordancia, opposition groups faced electoral fraud, censorship, and repression. With opponents effectively blocked from national politics, coalition members pursued policies that protected the conservative interests of the Argentine elite. Through the Great Depression and into World War II, its governments used a blend of economic orthodoxy and pragmatism, including reduced spending, exchange controls, and trade promotions, to protect agriculture and preserve Argentina's foreign markets. When political divisions and economic challenges crested during World War II, the military removed the coalition from power in June 1943.

See alsoArgentina, Political Parties: Antipersonalist Radical Civil Union; Argentina, Political Parties: Independent Socialist Party.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Béjar, María Dolores. Uriburu y Justo: El auge conservador, 1930–1935 (1983).

Falcoff, Mark, and Ronald H. Dolkart, eds. Prologue to Perón: Argentina in Depression and War, 1930–1943 (1975).

Persello, Ana Virginia. El partido radical: Gobierno y oposición, 1916–1943. Buenos Aires: Siglo Veintiuno Editores Argentina, 2004.

                                            Daniel Lewis