Operation Independence

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Operation Independence was a 1975 Argentine military campaign aimed at suppressing left-wing guerrilla activity in the Tucumán province, widely regarded as a precursor to the country's subsequent Dirty War.

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Label Occurrences
Operation Independence canonical 1
Operativo Independencia 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf counterinsurgency campaign
military operation
alsoKnownAs Operativo Independencia
appliesDoctrine national security doctrine
authorizedBy Government of Argentina
surface form: Argentine national government

Isabel Perón
surface form: President Isabel Perón
characterizedAs early phase of Argentina's state terrorism
precursor to the Dirty War
conflictType counterinsurgency conflict
internal armed conflict
country Argentina
hasConsequence expansion of security apparatus in Argentina
militarization of Tucumán Province
hasEffect escalation of state repression in Argentina
establishment of practices later used in the Dirty War
historicalRegion northwestern Argentina
surface form: Northwestern Argentina
historicalSignificance turning point in Argentina's 1970s political violence
implementedBy Argentine Armed Forces
Argentine Army
Argentine security forces
involves Argentine Armed Forces
surface form: Argentine military

Argentine police forces
left-wing guerrilla fighters
jurisdiction Government of Argentina
surface form: Argentine federal government
languageOfRecord Spanish
location Argentina
Tucumán Province
notableFor intensification of military presence in Tucumán
use of clandestine repression methods
objective suppress left-wing guerrilla activity in Tucumán Province
opponent People's Revolutionary Army
surface form: People's Revolutionary Army (ERP)

left-wing guerrilla organizations
partOf state repression of left-wing movements in Argentina
predecessorOf Dirty War
relatedTo Dirty War
Montoneros
Argentine military dictatorship (National Reorganization Process)
surface form: National Reorganization Process

People's Revolutionary Army
surface form: People's Revolutionary Army (ERP)

state terrorism in Argentina
result defeat of ERP rural foco in Tucumán
human rights violations in Tucumán Province
startTime 1975
timePeriod 1970s
usedTactic counterinsurgency warfare
intelligence operations against guerrilla networks
search and destroy operations

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Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Argentine Army conflict Operation Independence
Argentine Air Force conflict Operation Independence
this entity surface form: Operativo Independencia