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In Rebellion in Patagonia, Osvaldo Bayer has synthesized the material presented in the four-volume The Avengers of Tragic Patagonia, whose first three volumes were published in Argentina between 1972 and 1974 and the fourth published in West Germany in 1978. The final volume had to be published abroad as both the author and the editor were forced into exile following the 1976 military coup.

The author has striven to ensure that Rebellion in Patagonia contains all the essential information covered in his previous four-volume study. An abridgment was necessary; it will be easier for the Latin American public to learn of the tragic events surrounding the most extensive strike of rural workers in South American history through a more synthesized study. The appearance of a one-volume edition is also more convenient from a publishing standpoint, as it has proven impossible to reprint a work as long as The Avengers of Tragic Patagonia.

Rebellion in Patagonia closes a cycle that began with the 1928 publication of José María Borrero’s Tragic Patagonia, which dealt with the massacre of the indigenous people of southern Argentina and the exploitation of the region’s rural workers. Borrero promised a follow-up volume titled Orgy of Blood that would deal with the massacre of rural workers during the 1921–1922 strikes. Borrero’s second book—for a variety of reasons—was never published and was perhaps never even written. Rebellion in Patagonia deals with the same subject that would have been covered by Borrero’s book—a subject that, for over fifty years, has remained taboo for researchers into the great deeds of Latin America’s nearly unknown social history.