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The '''Dirty War''' in Argentina, from 1976-1983, was a seven-year  dictatorship and counterinsurgency campaign waged by the Argentinian military junta against left-wing guerrillas and supporting civilians. Many people, both guerrillas and sympathizers among the civilian population, were "disappeared". They were taken to secret government detention centers where they were tortured and eventually released or killed. These people are known as internationally as ''"los desaparecidos"'' ("the disappeared").

The '''Dirty War''' in Argentina, from 1976-1983, was a seven-year  dictatorship and counterinsurgency campaign waged by the Argentinian military junta against left-wing guerrillas and supporting civilians. Many people, both guerrillas and sympathizers among the civilian population, were "disappeared". They were taken to secret government detention centers where they were evemtually released or killed. These people are known as internationally as ''"los desaparecidos"'' ("the disappeared").

This unexpected Argentinian military defeat during the Falklands/Malvinas War in 1982 hastened the fall of the military junta that had lost the propaganda war, turning Argentina into a pariah state, and in mid-1982 General Reynaldo Bignone restored basic civil liberties and retracted its ban on left-wing political parties. The Argemtinian military dictatorhip ended when Raul Alfonsin's civilian government took control of the country on December 10, 1983.

This unexpected Argentinian military defeat during the Falklands/Malvinas War in 1982 hastened the fall of the military junta that had lost the propaganda war, turning Argentina into a pariah state, and in mid-1982 General Reynaldo Bignone restored basic civil liberties and retracted its ban on left-wing political parties. The Argemtinian military dictatorhip ended when Raul Alfonsin's civilian government took control of the country on December 10, 1983.