Word: montonero
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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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...
...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...