Edelmiro Correa Falcón was an Argentinian politician and ruralista, who held the post of Governor of the National Territory of Santa Cruz appointed by President Hipólito Yrigoyen between 1918 and 1921. At that time he was the Managing Secretary of the Rural Society of Santa Cross. Correa had been a commissioner in the Territories of Chaco and Santa Cruz, he became rancher, director of the conservative newspaper La Union de Río Gallegos, president of the Rural Society and Acting Governor, finally. Because of his contacts between the landowning oligarchy of Buenos Aires and the European ranchers of southern Patagonia, he became a key articulator for the repression of the workers' movement in the summer of 1922. Trajectory
While serving as Governor, there were a series of strikes by anarcho-syndicalist workers from estates and large estates. It affected the ranch patterns represented by the Sociedad Rural Argentina (SRA), of which Correa Falcón was a member along with the Argentine Patriotic League. There were incidents in which some historians maintain that the facts were manipulated in favor of the SRA to make the national government believe that the province was in anarchy and ready to be appropriated by Chile. He was displaced by Yrigoyen for these reasons, who appointed Ignacio Yza as his replacement, and sent Colonel Héctor Benigno Varela to control the situation in what is known as rebellious Patagonia, where thousands of workers were killed.
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