The Argentine Fascist Party (''Partido Fascista Argentino'', PFA) was a fascist political party in

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

from 1932 until its official disbandment in 1936, when it was succeeded by the National Fascist Union (''Union Nacional Fascista'', UNF). Founded by

Italian Argentine Italian Argentines ( it, italo-argentini; es, ítalo-argentinos, or ''tanos'' in Rioplatense Spanish) are Italian-born people (born in Argentina or Italy) or non-Italian citizens of Italian descent residing in Argentina. Italian is the largest ...

s, the party was formed as a breakaway faction from Argentina's

National Fascist Party The National Fascist Party ( it, Partito Nazionale Fascista, PNF) was a political party in Italy, created by Benito Mussolini as the political expression of Italian Fascism and as a reorganization of the previous Italian Fasces of Combat. Th ...

(''Partido Nacional Fascista'', PNF). It was based upon Italian fascism and was recognized by Benito Mussolini's

in 1935. In the 1930s the party became a mass movement, particularly in the Córdoba reguon. Nicholás Vitelli led the PFA's branch in Córdoba until his death in 1934, when

Nimio de Anquín Nimio de Anquín (1896–1979) was an Argentine Thomist writer and fascist politician. Seeking to combine European models of fascism with his own attachment to the Catholic Church he led several movements and for a time had a strong following. ...

took the leadership of the party. The PFA's main political allies in Córdoba were the

Argentine Civic Legion The Nationalist Liberation Alliance (Spanish: ''Alianza Libertadora Nacionalista'', ALN), originally known as the Argentine Civic Legion (''Legión Cívica Argentina'', LCA) from 1931 to 1937,Rodney P. Carlisle (general editor). ''The Encyclopedia ...

and the Nationalist Action of Argentina/Affirmation of a New Argentina movement.Sandra McGee Deutsch. ''Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939''. Stanford University Press, 1999. Pp. 210.

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