Cabecita Negra -

Perón’s industrial policies triggered a massive internal migration. Hundreds of thousands of poor, rural workers—known as los cabecitas —moved from the northern provinces (like Santiago del Estero, Tucumán, and Chaco) to the industrial belt of Greater Buenos Aires. These migrants were predominantly (mixed European and Indigenous ancestry) and had little formal education.

The famous Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges famously described Perón's followers in a derogatory way, encapsulating the elite's view of the cabecita negra as a brute, unthinking force. Cabecita Negra