Legitimidades enfrentadas: orden político imperante y puebladas en el norte de Salta a comienzos del nuevo milenio

Abstract

This article deals with the protests and social confrontations occurred in November 2000 in Tartagal and General Mosconi (province of Salta) within the struggle process developed in the region during the 1990s, and it analyzes the discourses delivered and the actions taken during the conflict. The discursive production shows a battle for different types of legitimacy and political organization, and the development of a series of arguments used by the national and provincial governments, trying to build a representation of the demonstrators associated with chaos, delinquency and political infiltration which partially retrieve the discourses of the dominant sectors from the 1960s and 1970s.