5 February 1975 – 28 September 1977 (1975-02-05 – 1977-09-28)
Location
Tucumán Province, Argentina
Result
Argentine government victory
Belligerents
Argentina
Supported by:
United States[1][2][3]
Bolivia
Chile
Paraguay
Uruguay
ERP
Montoneros Supported by: Cuba[4][5][6]
Commanders and leaders
Antonio Bussi
Ítalo Lúder
Acdel Vilas
Roberto Santucho †
Benito Urteaga †
Enrique Gorriarán Merlo
Juan Molina
Mario Firmenich
Juan Alsogaray
Dardo Cabo
Francisco Urondo †
Strength
5,000
500 30-100
Casualties and losses
70 killed
3 aircraft
2 helicopters
300 killed
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t
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Operation Independence
Río Pueblo Viejo
Manchalá
Gardel
Potrero Negro
Acheral
Operativo Independencia ("Operation Independence") 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.
^Comandos en acción: el Ejército en Malvinas, Isidoro Ruiz Moreno, p. 24, Emecé Editores, 1986
^Burzaco, Ricardo (1994). Infierno en el Monte Tucumano. p. 64. OCLC 31720152.
^Campbell, Duncan (6 December 2003). "Kissinger approved Argentinian 'dirty war' Declassified US files expose 1970s backing for junta". The Guardian. Retrieved 21 March 2018.
^Enrique Díaz-Araujo. La guerrilla en sus libros. p. 98.
^"Página/12 :: El país :: Gorriarán Merlo cuenta su versión". Retrieved 11 May 2016.
^"Página/12". Retrieved 23 February 2015.
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