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We will discuss in depth a series of literary fictions about the diverse and perennial legacies of militarized populism as first achieved by dictator Juan Domingo Perón. Of interest will be literary fictions of engagement through evasion. Starting with two theological stories by Borges, “Three versions of Judas” and “The Writing of God,” followed by Andrés Neuman’s short novel Bariloche and Ricardo Piglia’s Money to Burn and Target in the Night, we will study how power expands and contracts and consumes and regurgitates territorial values and possessions recycled through democratic rhetoric as politics by domination. A trilogy of films by Lucrecia Martel will offers corrections to these literary fictions: The Swamp, The Headless Woman and Zama.