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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 ...

  2. Jun 3, 2024 · Dirty War, infamous campaign waged from 1976 to 1983 by Argentina ’s military dictatorship against suspected left-wing political opponents. It is estimated that between 10,000 and 30,000 citizens were killed; many of them were “ disappeared”—seized by the authorities and never heard from again.

  3. The Mexican Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) was the Mexican theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict from the 1960s to the 1980s between the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-ruled government under the presidencies of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Luis Echeverría and José López Portillo, which were backed by the US ...

  4. www.encyclopedia.com › humanities › encyclopedias-almanacsDirty War | Encyclopedia.com

    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.

  5. This paper shall argue that Argentina’s Dirty War, conducted by the civilian and military governments between 1974 and 1983, constituted genocide because of the specific targeting of political groups, the logistical elements that coordinated the genocide, and the psychological and sociological motives behind it.

  6. 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.

  7. Oct 28, 2020 · Eighteen people have gone on trial in Argentina on charges ranging from abduction to crimes against humanity. The prosecution says they were responsible for torture, baby thefts and killings...