Tacuara Nationalist Movement

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The Tacuara Nationalist Movement (Spanish: Movimiento Nacionalista Tacuara, MNT) was an Argentine far-right fascist movement. While officially established in 1957, its activities started in 1955, and continued through the 1960s. Directly inspired by Julio Meinvielle's Catholic pronouncements, Tacuara defended nationalist, Catholic, anti-liberal, anti-communist, antisemitic, and anti-democratic ideas, and had as its first model José Antonio Primo de Rivera's fascist Falange Española. Its main leaders were Alberto Ezcurra Uriburu, José Luis "Joe" Baxter, Óscar Denovi, and Eduardo Rosa. Various ideologically contradictory movements emerged from this group. After three important splits in the early 1960s, the police cracked down on most factions in March 1964. A year later, the entire MNT was outlawed by then president Arturo Illia of the Radical Civic Union. The movement gradually disintegrated as many members became fascinated with left-wing Peronism and communism, while others incorporated...

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