Word: rcito
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fight against terrorism is far from over. Since the coup, 1,700 leftist guerrillas and 124 soldiers and police have died in what the military calls "the dirty war." The government has virtu ally wiped out one major terrorist group, the leftist Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (E.R.P.). The other large guerrilla network is the Montoneros, who are also leftists with Peronist sympathies; most of their top leaders have been killed or captured, but they can still launch spectacular bombings, kidnapings and murders. One Shootout last week took place at Buenos Aires' evening rush hour, near the Supreme...
...guerrillas began fighting to bring back exiled Dictator Juan Domingo Perón. The two main factions: 1) the Montoneros (bush fighters), who originally supported Perón but turned increasingly leftward and broke away after his return to power in 1973; and 2) the smaller ERP (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo, or People's Revolutionary Army), a Cuban-influenced outfit with Trotskyite ties...
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