Word: firmenich
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...Firmenich evidently developed pangs of home sickness after Argentina began reverting to civilian rule last year. In December he and four other Montonero leaders made a grand show of sending an open letter to the country's President-elect, Raúl Alfonsín, offering to take part in a "constructive and democratic opposition...
...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...
...heyday, the Montonero organization grew in strength to about 20,000, including some 5,000 fighters. Under Firmenich's direction, they carried out countless assassinations and bombings that were financed through kidnapings. The guerrillas withered away, however, during the bloody repression that followed Argentina's 1976 military coup...
...Firmenich escaped to Europe, where he issued defiant manifestoes and embraced luminaries like Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Firmenich also bragged from exile that his Montoneros played a small but vital part in the 1979 Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua...
Last week Firmenich finally received his formal reply...