The article precipitated a historic political movement that led first to the creation of the Civic Youth Union, of which Barroetaveña was president, then to the creation of the Civic Union in 1890, then to the Revolution of the Park, and in 1891 to the creation of the Radical Civic Union, of which he was a founding member and national deputy on various occasions.
In 2008 he founded the center right Civic Union party which became a founding member of the Unity coalition which won the largest mandate the 2010 Saeima elections.
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Parque Alem, one of two large parks in Rosario, Santa Fe, is named after Alem, and has a heroic statue of him, trying to bend a quebracho log, representing the motto of the Radical Civic Union, Se quiebra pero no se dobla ("It breaks but it does not bend", an expression of commitment to principles).
The Civic Union of León, one such local party active in the mid-1940s, was dominated by a cadre of synarchists in the leadership positions.
Roy (Abelardo) Nikisch (born 1951), a Croatian-Argentine Radical Civic Union senator