Guerra sucia

Guerra sucia is Spanish for dirty war, an offensive conducted by a regime against dissidents, marked by the use of torture and forced disappearance of civilians.[1]

Guerra Sucia may specifically refer to:

  • Dirty War (Argentina, 1974-1983), period of state-sponsored violence against dissident and other citizens carried out by the military governments of Jorge Rafael Videla and others.
  • Dirty War (Mexico), 20th-century internal conflict between the US-backed PRI government and left-wing student and guerrilla groups.
  • GAL (Spain, 1983-1987), illegal death squads established to fight Basque separatist militants.

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References

  1. ↑ http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=dirty%20war
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