Rodolfo González Pacheco

Rodolfo González Pacheco (1882–1949) was an Argentine writer, playwright, orator, anarchistic journalist and activist. He was editor of the anarchist newspaper La Antorcha (The Torch)and, founder of the Teatro de Ideas (Theatre of Ideas). He died on July 5, 1949.

In 1906 he founded, along with Federico Gutierrez (an ex-police turned anarchist) the satirical newspaper La Mentira (The lie). In 1908 he founded Germinal, with Teodoro Antilli; both managed La Batalla in 1910. From these years onwards he was collaborator on La Protesta. In 1911 he published the newspaper Alberdicon Apolinario Barrera. That year he was imprisoned for a few months in the Ushuaia Jail.

Once freed he founded the newspaper Libre Palabra with Titio Livio Foppa and El Manifiesto with Antilli, in 1911. In that same year he left for Mexico to collaborate with the magonistas on the Mexican Revolution. He returned to Argentina in 1914. In 1917 he published La Obra (The Work), a newspaper of the anarchist group of the same name. In 1919 he published Carteles, a miscellaneous anthological collection and some short articles. This was his most famous work.

In 1920 he founded another anarchistic newspaper, El Libertario and then released La Antorcha (The Torch) the next year. This newspaper with debate, along with La Protesta. The activities of violent direct actions at times were supported and never condemned by Pacheco's newspaper while La Protesta had a different attitude, clearly opposed to the anarchist expropriators.

In this context, in 1926 was condemned to 6 months in prison for defending Kurt Wilckens, the instigator of what is known as the tragic Patagonia massacre. After the José Evaristo Uriburu coup he was imprisoned in the Villa Devoto Jail for 8 months. There he wrote the drama Juana y Juan.

He was an active participant in the campaign for the liberation of Sacco y Vanzetti and Simón Radowitzky. He was a lecturer and activist in Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, Chile, Mexico, Cuba and Spain, a country to which he travelled during the Spanish Civil War of 1936. There he headed the magazine Teatro Social (Social Theatre) and, along with William Bosquets, founded the village Theatre Company. In 1938 he published Carteles de España. He returned to Argentina after the republican defeat.

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