The National Fascist Union (''Unión Nacional Fascista'', UNF) was a fascist political party formed in

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in 1936, as the successor to the Argentine Fascist Party.Renate Marsiske, Lourdes Alvarado (2006). ''Movimientos estudiantiles en la historia de América Latina''. Mexico City, Mexico: Universidad Nacional Autónoma. p.58. In August 1936, UNF leader

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. ...

attempted to force students at a law school in Cordoba to pledge a statement of support for the

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general Francisco Franco.Sandra McGee Deutsch (1999). ''Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939''. Stanford University Press. p.216. Police responded with a crackdown against Argentine nationalists. Support for the UNF surged after two nationalists were shot in the Colegio Montserrat in 1938. In the aftermath of the Montserrat murders, Anquin denounced the middle and upper class for complicity and cowardice and claimed that "

communism Communism (from Latin la, communis, lit=common, universal, label=none) is a far-left sociopolitical, philosophical, and economic ideology and current within the socialist movement whose goal is the establishment of a communist society, a ...

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, and degenerate Radicalism" were responsible for causing the murders.Sandra McGee Deutsch (1999). ''Las Derechas: The Extreme Right in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile, 1890-1939''. Stanford University Press. p.217. Anquín called for the mourners to swear "by God, honour, and the Fatherland, to return the homicidal bullet". By 1939, the UNF was largely defunct, and Anquín returned to his hometown to resume his earlier career as a lecturer.

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