The rural world from liberationist Christianity in Argentina

the perspective of Ricardo Nadalich (1966-1969)

Abstract

This text is introduced in part of the path and thought of Ricardo Nadalich, an ecclesiastical and political militant whose route was marked by problems of the period under study: the gestation of the "new lefts" and Latin American guerrillas, youth rebellions, Liberation Theology and Latin American 68, among others. The objective of the text, therefore, is to analyze his perspectives within the framework of liberationist Christianity linked to the rural world during the period of his activity as president of the National Team of the Rural Catholic Action Movement between 1966 and 1969. The adopted methodology establishes a biographical approach based on qualitative documentary observation techniques on a series of articles published in ecclesiastical journals of the time. In general terms, a shift can be seen -although not linear- from the proposal of public policies to improve the living conditions of the peasantry based on ecumenical principles towards a defined position regarding the orientation that, he maintained, the ecclesiastical universe should adopt in against the mechanisms that privileged processes of exploitation of the masses and capitalist accumulation.