En el área de la memoria colectiva, es posible establecer diversas distinciones. Una, vinculada a la fuente de la memoria, diferencia entre memoria comunicativa, trasmitida a través de conversaciones entre las personas, y memoria cultural, objetivada a través de textos, conmemoraciones, etc. Otra, entre distintos tipos de recuerdo, los vividos (sobre hechos acaecidos durante el curso de la propia vida) y los distantes (sobre hechos sucedidos antes del nacimiento o la madurez cognitiva). La crisis económica de 2001 en Argentina es un evento sobre el que predomina una memoria comunicativa sobre una cultural. Con el fin de examinar esto, 100 participantes respondieron a una tarea de recuerdo libre sobre dicho hecho histórico, y se realizó un análisis del contenido del discurso para identificar a los actores del mismo. Se consideró a aquellos que ejecutan, reciben acciones o son periféricos en relación a los hechos (primarios activos, primarios pasivos y secundarios). Los resultados indicaron diferencias y similitudes en la frecuencia de actores recordados, en función del tipo de recuerdo, la ideología política (derecha o izquierda) y el grado de afectación (directa o indirecta) de los participantes (o de sus padres). Palabras clave Memoria comunicativa - Recuerdos vividos - Recuerdos distantes - Análisis del discurso ABSTRACT ACTORS OF THE COLLECTIVE MEMORY OF THE ECONOMIC CRISIS OF 2001 IN ARGENTINA In collective memory studies, it is possible to establish several distinctions. One, based on the source of memory, between communicative memory, transmitted through conversations between people, and cultural memory, objectified through texts, commemorations, etc. Other, between different types of memories, those lived (about facts that took place during the person´s life) and those distant (about facts that took place before the birth of the person or the acquisition of cognitive maturity).The economic crisis of 2001 in Argentina is an event about which predominates a communicative memory over a cultural one. In order to examine this, one-hundred participants performed a free recall task about that historical event, and an analysis of the content of discourse was carried out to identify the actors present in it. We considered those actors that perform or receive actions and those peripheral to the facts (primary active, primary passive and secondary). Results indicate differences and similarities as a function of type of memory, political ideology (right or left) and the degree to which the participants (or their parents) were affected. Keywords Communicative memory - Lived memories - Distant memories -