Summary

This article analyzes the implications of the integration strategy of Peronism to the ranks of the Intransigent Radical Civic Union (UCRI), a marginal issue in the investigations regarding this party. With that aim it observes the profiles the integration adopted in the province of Tucumán from the creation of the UCRI (1957) until the federal intervention that displaced it from power (1962). The text characterizes the actors that backed the alluded strategy, the practices that shaped it configured and the tensions that it generated in the party’s structure. The sources include written press, official publications, the party’s documentation, correspondence and oral interviews. The results of the investigation reveal the characteristics that the integration adopted in the provincial space, the diversity of the practices that promoted its launch and the complicated reception of the guidelines defined by the leadership to the lower scales of the party’s organization.