Argentina's Lost Patrol: Armed Struggle, 1969-1979

248 Pages·1995·10.356 MB·English

by  Maria José Moyano

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Lost Patrol
ARMED STRUGGLE, 1969-1979
Argentina's
Lost Patrol
Armed Struggle, 1969-1979
Marfa Jose Moyano
A
rgentine guerrillas began
fighting against the coun¬
try's military government in
1969. After four years, in large part
because of guerrilla activity, the mil¬
itary decided to call elections and
the country returned to constitu¬
tional rule. The guerrillas continued
their struggle, however, and were
partly responsible for the break¬
down of democracy in 1976 and
the establishment of a highly repres¬
sive military regime whose "dirty
war" eventually destroyed them.
This book is the first comprehensive
study in English of Argentina's guer¬
rilla groups—the driving force
behind so many political develop¬
ments in the country over the past
twenty-five years.
Marfa Jose Moyano bases her inves¬
tigation on an extraordinary collec¬
tion of personal interviews with
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Argfeutma's Lost Patrol
From Argentina, A City and a Nation, by James R. Scobie. Copyright © 1964, 1971 by Oxford
University Press, Inc. Reprinted by permission.
Argentina’s
Lost Patrol
Armed Strug'g'le
1969-1979
Maria Jose Moyano
Yale University Press
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This book may not be reproduced, in whole or Moyano, Marfa Jose.
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without written permission from the ISBN 0-300-06122-6 (alk. paper)
publishers. I. Argentina—Politics and government—
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