La construcción de la identidad política en los orígenes del peronismo en Argentina y del varguismo en Brasil: Un análisis desde la teoría del discurso político

this paper is a comparative study of the political emergence of juan perón in argentina and getulio vargas in brazil. it seeks to describe and explain how and why peronism and varguismo were two different political projects. using the tools of political discourse theory (pdt), this research scrutinises the implications perón and vargas had for the formation of the political identities of the socio-political actors in both countries and to what extent this difference had to do with the specific ways in which both leaders intervened in the political formation. in this sense, the paper stresses the specific discursive and institutional modes of intervention that characterised these two leaders' projects and their role in the political imaginary they inaugurated. it does so by tracing the responses to perón and vargas by different socio-political actors and the polemic context in which those responses took place.