A Peronist “buen muchacho”: notes on an Orthodox Peronist asylum in Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this article is to make a first historical flight on the trajectory of Argentine journalist José Maria Villon in Brazil, from 1958 to the early 1970s. He participated in the third government of Juan D. Perón (1973-1974) with the rise of José López Rega, head of the extremist group Triple A, one of the most powerful people in the Peronist circle because of his influence on Isabel Perón. Villon was part of that environment. The discovery of unpublished documents that register Villon's presence in the community of Argentines residing in southern Brazil and, later, his reappearance in documents of the Brazilian repression, pointed to an intriguing object of investigation. The research aimed to build a historical-biographical narrative and the plurality of sources is a feature of this article, being obtained both from the print media, as well as from private document collections and repressive archives.