Argentinas Dirty War 1970s
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The Dirty War in Argentina
It was the largest, most horrendous genocide in the history of Argentina. The lives of 30,000 people were left unaccountable for; they just simply vanished into their fates determined by the corrupt military rule of a country. For eight years Argentina and its people would be in great suffering, this event is known as the Dirty War or reign of terror. Following, I will be discussing how it started, what happened to the people of a nation, what was done to cease it, and how the Dirty War ended.
The Dirty War had officially started on March 24, 1976. On this day a well-planned action was set by the Argentine armed forces to overthrow the government of President Isabel Martinez de Peron (see picture of Peron and his wife below). The overthrow was a plan of a three-man military junta, which is a group of leaders as opposed to one, and the head of the junta being General Jorge Rafael Videla. (Encyclopedia, 56). Videla and the other junta members took charge and began a ruthless campaign against liberals which were people who favored proposals for reform, were open to new ideas for progress, and tolerant of the ideas and behavior of others and in other words broad-minded, they were also against leftists who were the people who advocated liberal, often radical measures to effect change in the established order, especially in politics, usually to achieve the equality, freedom, and well-being of the common citizens of a state, and the junta also tried to remove political
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terrorists. Anyone who was suspected of favoring these groups was subject to arbitrary arrest...