What the records say
- When
- 5 Feb 1975
- Kind
- Military operation
- Coordinates
- 27.00° S, 65.50° W
- Description
- 1975-1979 Argentine military operation
Placed at the area, not an exact site.
Operation Independence
1975–77 Argentine victory in the Dirty War
Operativo Independencia was a 1975 Argentine military operation in Tucumán Province to crush the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a Guevarist guerrilla group which tried to create a Vietnam-style war front in the northwestern province. It was the first large-scale military operation of the Dirty War.
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- Wikidata: military operations, raids and air strikesWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Argentinian president Isabel Perón decrees Operativo Independencia, aiming to neutralize or annihilate the "subversive elements" in the province of Tucuman”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Spanish), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “en la provincia de Tucumán (Argentina) comienza el Operativo Independencia, que se extenderá hasta el 28 de septiembre de 1977”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page