The "Modern" Military Dictatorship in Latin America: The Case of Argentina (1976-1982

In: Latin American perspectives, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 41-74

Abstract

Argentina is the anchor of the continent, and more specifically of the Inter-American system. This country is necessarily important for any one who studies the strategy of the Free World. Argentina is the battlefront of the hemisphere [General Gordon Summer, President of the Inter-American Defence Council, October 1977] .