Patagonia Rebelde

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Patagonia Rebelde
Arrested workers after the strike's suppression
Date 1920-1922 Location Santa Cruz Province, Argentina Result Strike suppressed by the government
Belligerents
Argentine Regional Workers' Federation	Government of Argentina Argentine Army Argentine Federal Police Argentine Patriotic League Radical Civic Union
Commanders and leaders
Antonio Soto Facón Grande	Hipólito Yrigoyen Edelmiro Correa Falcón Héctor Benigno Varela
Casualties and losses
300[1]-1,500[2]	5 police and 2 soldiers

Patagonia Rebelde (or Patagonia Trágica) ("Rebel Patagonia" or "Tragic Patagonia" in English) was the name given to the uprising and violent suppression of a rural workers' strike in the Argentine province of Santa Cruz in Patagonia between 1920 and 1922. The uprising was put down by Colonel Héctor Benigno Varela's 10th Cavalry Regiment of the Argentine Army under the orders of President Hipólito Yrigoyen.^[3] Approximately 300^[4]-1,500^[4] rural workers were shot and killed by the 10th Cavalry Regiment in the course of the operations, many of them executed by firing squads after surrendering. Most of the executed were Spanish and Chilean workers who had sought refuge in Argentina's Patagonia after their strike in the city of Puerto Natales in southern Chile in 1919 was crushed by the Chilean authorities, at the cost of four carabiniers killed^[5] and the offices of their union were burned by the civilians, policemen and the militaries in Punta Arenas on July 27, 1920.^[6][3] At least two Argentine soldiers (privates Fernando Pablo Fischer and Domingo Montenegro), three local policemen (sergeant Tomás Rosa and constables Ernesto Bozán and Juan Campos) and a number of ranch owners and their relatives also died during the strife. According to the versions well publicized by the army and the landowners, several of the captured women were raped in the uprising as the rebel forces fought for control of the territory.^[7][8] These versions have been widely discredited.^[9] The most detailed narrative of these events is that by Osvaldo Bayer (1972, below), summarized in English by Bruce Chatwin in 1976.^[10]