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People’s Revolutionary Army
political organization, Argentina
Also known as: ERP, Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo
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effect on Argentine political life
- In Argentina: Military government, 1966–73
…by a Trotskyite group, the People’s Revolutionary Army (Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo; ERP), and by Peronist groups. In 1970 one of these Peronist organizations, the Montoneros, destroyed the moderate Peronist union leadership and captured and killed former president Aramburu, who had been organizing a movement for a return to constitutional…
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opposition by Videla
- In Jorge Rafael Videla
…an army campaign against the People’s Revolutionary Army (ERP) in Tucumán province, which resulted in the death of hundreds of Marxist guerrillas. After leading the military coup that deposed Isabel Perón on March 24, 1976, Videla became president of Argentina as head of a three-man (later a five-man) military junta…
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