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The Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina (Spanish: dictadura cívico-militar de Argentina) for the period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983 as a part of Operation Condor, during which military and security forces and death squads in the ...
- Political Turmoil
- The Dirty War
- Foreign Support
- Casualties and Aftermath
Argentina was in a state of political turmoil after the ouster of President Juan Peron in 1955. President Peron was a popular leader who had made reforms that were popular with the masses. The military established its rule and abolished most of President Peron’s reforms. Groups sympathetic to Peron began to resist the military rule. The Argentinian...
The Argentinian military Junta began operations to restore order in the country immediately after the overthrow of President Isabel Peron’s government. Together with militias allied to the government, they began targeting the leftist movements, their fighting men, leaders, and supporters. Military operations had defeated the leftist militias but th...
The dirty war had foreign backers notably the United States which gave military aid in the pretext of fighting communism. The leftists were supported by the Cubans via their embassy which was used to maintain communication with the leftist rebels. Support for the military government began to wane after news reports of its excesses went internationa...
Raul Alfonsin was elected in 1983 when democracy was restored in Argentina. President Raul started a commission that investigated the crimes committed during the dirty war. The report estimated that 8353 Argentinians had disappeared or were killed during the dirty war. New discoveries have put the figure at 30,000 and Amnesty quotes its figure at 1...
During the Argentine government’s seven-year (1976-83) campaign against suspected dissidents and subversives, often known as the “Dirty War,” between 10,000 and 30,000 people were killed, including opponents of the government as well as innocent victims.
Ein schmutziger Krieg, vereinzelt auch dreckiger Krieg genannt [1] ( spanisch guerra sucia, engl. dirty war ), ist ein Konflikt, bei dem staatliche Sicherheitskräfte gegen innenpolitische Gegner, separatistische, terroristische, religiös motivierte oder sonstige Widerstandsbewegungen vorgehen und dabei systematisch illegale und menschenrechtsver...
Dirty war (guerra sucia) is the term used in Argentina by supporters of the last military dictatorship to characterize the clandestine terrorist repression carried out by the state between 1976 and 1983.
Argentina’s Dirty War and the Transition to Democracy. It was one of the darkest periods in Latin American history. From 1976-1983, a brutal military junta ruled Argentina in what was called “the Dirty War,” when some 10,000 persons were “disappeared” and human rights abuses were rampant.
