Norberto Habegger: a political- intellectual itinerary (1959- 1978)

Abstract

This article deals with the life story of Norberto Habegger, founder of the armed organisation Descamisados. It draws on documents from his biography and from the archive on the Brazilian repression (of which he was a victim) to show the itinerary that made him a politician and intellectual in the Catholic world by the end of the 1960s. We analyze Habegger's conceptions of Catholicism before and after the Second Vatican Council and his positions changes about Peronism. It also studies the political practices that he developed once he joined Montoneros. We hypothesise that the features of the radical nature of these politics were born out of on the previous decade.