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by gus_massa 2031 days ago
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Revolutionary_Army_...

> Although the ERP continued for a while under the leadership of Enrique GorriarĂ¡n Merlo, by late 1977 the guerrilla threat had been eradicted or gone underground.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montoneros

> The Montoneros were effectively finished off by 1977, although their "Special Forces" did fight on until 1981. The Montoneros tried to disrupt the World Cup Football Tournament being hosted in Argentina in 1978 by launching a number of bomb attacks. In late 1979, the Montoneros launched a "strategic counteroffensive" in Argentina, and the security forces killed more than one hundred of the exiled Montoneros, who had been sent back to Argentina after receiving special forces training in camps in the Middle East.

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It was a civil war between a facist dictator and the Argentines who wanted freedom and democracy. Of course Montoneros went underground, they were being killed by the thousands. The good news is that the wounds left by fascism are now healing.

In Argentina, Maradona was seen as Evita and Che Guevara. The Champion of the poor, and the face of anti-imperialism.

Dirty War (1976 to 1983)

* Right-wing Peronism: Videla, Military junta, AAA.

* Left-wing Peronism: Montoneros, students, socialists.

Up to 30,000 people disappeared, and more than 12,000 were tortured by the right-wing fascists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dirty_War