Word: tucuman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marxist left renewed prestige and influence for the first time in 30 years. A number of industrialists had been kidnapped and ransomed for salary raises and other benefits for the workers. Since July 1974, the ERP had maintained a very active rural guerrilla front in the northwestern province of Tucuman, and with their influence on peasants and workers had caused the armed forces increasing anxiety...
...hard-fought military engagement that cost at least 115 lives-85 guerrillas, seven government troops, three policemen and 20 civilians. The attack was apparently a joint operation of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a left-wing guerrilla group that has been fighting government troops for years in Tucuman province, and the Montone-ros, the terrorist arm of left-wing Peronists, who specialize in urban assassinations and high-ransom kidnapings. According to the army, 150 guerrillas-many of them boys and girls in their late teens-attacked the arsenal as most of its 40 troops were sitting down...