Listen. I wasn’t alive during the WWII, but I know that the whole “peron nazi sympathizer” trope is the Right’s biggest gottcha. It’s akin to “The democrats were in favor of slavery and the republicans the party of Lincoln.”
Argentina and all of Latin America is racist and anti-Semitic as all get-go. Just like Europe and Anglo- America.
Not sending poor Brown boys from Cholera-infested haciendas or urban sweatshops to die and kill in Europe when the Allies demanded he do so was a whole thing that exacerbated the tensions around natural resources extraction.
Not sending poor Brown boys to shore up Russia’s troops previous to that was a whole other thing more worthy of criticism imo. Refusing to take sides in the squabbles of empires continues to be a whole thing.
Surely allowing some Nazis to flee here was a mistake, and since they and their descendants populate the anti-peronist conservative parties, not very strategic either. However, to go from there to depicting a socially liberal economically leftist people’s party as nazi sympathizing or pro-fascist is missing the mark.
