1st Edition

José Antonio Primo de Rivera in Latin America The Pursuit of a Fascist Usable Past during the Cold War (1939–1989)

By Daniel Gunnar Kressel Copyright 2025
130 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

130 Pages 4 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores a distinctive neo-fascist movement that emerged in Latin America and Spain during the Cold War. At times self-labeled “Jose Antonians,” the book’s protagonists evoked the memory and ideology of José Antonio Primo de Rivera. The author first elucidates who this Spanish fascist was and why his memory loomed large among Latin American rightists. Second, the book explores how, by... Read more

Introduction                                                                                                                                 

Neo-Fascism in Cold War Latin America

 

1. José Antonio Primo de Rivera                                                                                              

Ideology, Myth, and Initial Reception in Latin America 

 

2. The “Intellectuals”                                                                                                                 

Reviving National-Syndicalism vis-à-vis the Populists and the Technocrats (1945–1962)

 

3. The “Militias”                                                                                                                         

The Struggle against Marxism and “Subversion” (1963–1974)

 

4. Three Peculiar Visitors in 1974 Spain                                                                                  

Neo-Fascist Performance in the Twilight of Francoism

 

5. The “Hardliners”                                                                                                                   

Resisting the Democratization of the Third Wave

  

Conclusion                                                                                                                                                

 

Appendix: Four Official Programs and Points 

Selected bibliography                                                                                                                              

 

Index                                                                                                                                                           

Biography

Daniel Gunnar Kressel is a research fellow at the Department of Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin American Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.