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Wikipedia: The Dirty War refers to the state-sponsored violence in Argentina against several thousand left-wing militants, including left-wing revolutionaries, trade unionists, all-out Marxist guerrillas and sympathizersfrom roughly 1976 to 1983 carried out primarily by Jorge Rafael Videla's military dictatorship but continued until the return of democracy in 1983. The exact chronology of the repression is still debated, as trade unionists were targeted for assassination as early as 1973, and individual cases of state-sponsored violence against Peronism and the left can be traced back to the 1950s; the Trelew Massacre in 1972, the actions of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance since 1973 and Isabel Martínez de Perón's "annihilation decrees" against left wing guerrillas during Operativo Independencia in 1975, have been suggested as landmarks to mark the beginning of the Dirty War. In a high-profile attack on 16 October 1972, a left-wing bomb in the 22nd floor of the tourist-packed Sheraton Hotel in Buenos Aires killed a Canadian woman and gravely wounded her husband and a woman from the United States.
![[August 7, 1979 US embassy in Argentina Memorandum of the conversation with "Jorge Contreras," director of Task...]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Memor_C3_A1ndum_Embajada_USA_del_07AG_1979_Contreras_s.jpg "August 7, 1979 US embassy in Argentina Memorandum of the conversation with \"Jorge Contreras,\" director of Task...")
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![[The sign at the entrance of the Centro Popular de la Memoria.]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Centro_Popular_de_la_Memoria_Rosario_s.jpg "The sign at the entrance of the Centro Popular de la Memoria.")
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![[Pirámide de Mayo'' covered with photos of the ''desaparecidos'' by the ''Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo in 2004]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Pir_C3_A1mide_de_Mayo_covered_with_photos_of_the_desaparecidos_s.jpg "Pirámide de Mayo'' covered with photos of the ''desaparecidos'' by the ''Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo in 2004")
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![[Poster by the NGO the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, with photos of the disappeared]](http://images.ookaboo.com/photo/s/Que_digan_d_C3_B3nde_estan_s.jpg "Poster by the NGO the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, with photos of the disappeared")
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