Word: aramburu
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...onetime neofascist student leader, Firmenich, 36, virtually inaugurated the brutal period of terror and counterterror that became known as Argentina's "dirty war." In 1970 he and a small group of colleagues won instant fame by kidnaping and murdering a former Argentine provisional President, Army General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu. The justification: "anti-imperialism." Eventually, Firmenich declared an underground guerrilla war against the incompetent regime of then President María Estela Martinez de Perón, better known as "Isabelita...
...return to power of former Dictator Perón, Argentina suffered the worst bout of terrorism on the continent. Thousands of left-wing Perónist disciples, known as Montoneros, allied with Trotskyite guerrillas to terrorize and murder at will. Among their victims: onetime Argentine President Pedro Aramburu, General Juan Carlos Sánchez, commander of the Argentine army Second Corps, and John Patrick Egan, a U.S. government representative. Some 700 people were killed by guerrillas, most of them members of the security forces. The guerrillas kidnaped scores of businessmen, particularly foreigners, and companies such as Kodak, Exxon, Firestone...