Facturas

Facturas (sing.: factura) is the name used in Argentina to describe any type of pastry, sweet bread, viennoiserie or cake, but also used for salty baked snacks. The different types of facturas were originally introduced by immigrants from the Italian, German and French confectionery industry. The modern names of different facturas were created by workers around the Sociedad Cosmopolita de Resistencia y Colocación de Obreros Panaderos. Founded by anarchists Errico Malatesta and Ettore Mattei, the organisation was the first labor union of Argentina, and workers gave the facturas names to ridicule the repression against the movement and insult the those in power. In Uruguay, similar baked goods are made, known as bizcochos.