José María Rosa

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José María Rosa (born August 20, 1906 in Buenos Aires; died July 2, 1991) was an Argentine historian, one of the most notorious of the Argentine nationalist revisionist historians. He was a fascist sympathiser and an acknowledged anti-Semite.

Regarding his supposedly sympathy towards the fascism he once said: "The fascism was an Italian nationalistic phenomenon of the 20's and 30's; it has so much to do with the Argentine nationalism like with the Vietnamese nationalism or the Cuban one. It is not up to me “to surpass the ambiguity” of those who cannot understand nationalisms; it is up to them, at risk to remain without understanding neither the past nor the present"

Informally known as Pepe Rosa, he became a lawyer at just 20 years of age. After several years working as a lawyer, he began teaching both in universities and high schools. The military regime arrested him along with John W. Cooke to whom he had given refuge in his house, he spent 35 days incommunicated. He lived in Uruguay and Franco's Spain. Later Juan Domingo Perón named him ambassador to Paraguay. He moved to Greece upon Perón's death.

When Rosa returned during the military dictatorship of the late 1970s, his books were banned and taken out of public libraries. He founded a magazine called Línea ("the voice of those who do not have a voice"), which was censored many times. The magazine reflected the views of the nationalist, "national-Catholic" right. Daniel Muchnik, in his book Negocios son negocios ("Business is business"), exposed José María Rosa as a self-proclaimed anti-Semite.

At his request, November 20 was declared National Sovereignty Day (Día de la Soberanía Nacional) in commemoration of the 1845 battle of Vuelta de Obligado.

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Más allá del código (Beyond the code) (1933)
Interpretación religiosa de la historia (Religious interpretation of history) (1936)
Defensa y pérdida de nuestra independencia económica (Defense and loss of our economic independence) (1943)
Artigas, prócer de la nacionalidad (Artigas, leader of nationality) (1949)
La misión García ante Lord Strangford (The García mission before Lord Strangford) (1951)
El cóndor ciego; la extraña muerte de Lavalle (The blind cóndor; Lavalle's strange death) (1952)
Nos, los representantes del pueblo (We, the people's representatives) (1955)
Del municipio indiano a la provincia argentina (From the Indian municipality to the Argentine province) (1958)
La caída de Rosas (The fall of Rosas) (1958)
El pronunciamiento de Urquiza (The uprising of Urquiza) (1960)
Artigas, la revolución de mayo y la unidad hispano-americana (Artigas, the May Revolution and the Hispanic-American unit) (1960)
El revisionismo responde (Revisionism answers) (1964)
Rivadavia y el imperialismo financiero (Rivadavia and financial imperialism) (1964)
La guerra del Paraguay y las montoneras argentinas (The war of Paraguay and the Argentine montoneras) (1965)
Doctores, militares e ingleses en la independencia nacional (Doctors, military and English people in the national independence) (1968)
Historia del revisionismo (History of revisionism) (1968)
Rosas, nuestro contemporáneo (Rosas, our contemporary) (1970)
Historia Argentina; 13 tomos (Argentine History; 13 volumes) (1970)
El fetiche de la constitución (The fetish of the constitution) (1984)
Análisis de la dependencia argentina (Analysis of the Argentine dependency) (?)

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Daniel Muchnik. Negocios son negocios. Editorial Norma, Buenos Aires, 1999.
Jose Maria Rosa. Historia del revisionismo y otros ensayos. Editorial Merlín, Buenos Aires, 1968.