National Reorganization Process
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The National Reorganization Process was the name used by its leaders for the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. In Argentina it is often known simply as última junta militar ("last military junta"), última dictadura militar ("last military dictatorship") or última dictadura cívico-militar ("last civil-military dictatorship"), because there have been several in the country's history.
The Argentine military seized political power during the March 1976 coup over the presidency of Isabel Perón, widow of former President Juan Domingo Perón; a time of state terrorism against civilians started, with the dictatorship labeling its own use of torture, extrajudicial murder and systematic forced disappearances as "a Dirty War". After starting and then losing the Falklands War to the United Kingdom in 1982, the military junta faced mounting public opposition and finally relinquished power in 1983.
Almost all of the surviving Junta members are currently serving sentences for crimes against humanity and genocide.
See also
- H.I.J.O.S. – Hijos e Hijas por la Identidad y la Justicia contra el Olvido y el Silencio
- History of Argentina
- Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo
- National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP)
- Politics of Argentina
- Theory of the two demons
