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===Church involvement===
 
===Church involvement===
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Some Catholic priests sympathized with and helped the Montoneros. Radical priests, including Father Alberto Carbone, who was eventually indicted in the murder of Aramburu, preached Marxism and presented the early Church fathers as model revolutionaries in an attempt to legitimise the violence.<ref>Argentina: What Went Wrong, Colin M. MacLachlan, p. 136, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006</ref>A Catholic youth leader, Juan Ignacio Isla Casares, with the help of the Montoneros commander Eduardo Pereira Rossi (nom de guerre "El Carlón") was the mastermind behind the ambush and killing of five policemen near San Isidro Cathedral on 26 October 1975.
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Some Catholic priests sympathized with and helped the Montoneros. Radical priests, including Father Alberto Carbone, who was eventually indicted in the murder of Aramburu, preached Marxism and presented the early Church fathers as model revolutionaries in an attempt to legitimise the violence.<ref>Argentina: What Went Wrong, Colin M. MacLachlan, p. 136, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2006</ref>A Catholic youth leader, Juan Ignacio Isla Casares, with the help of the Montoneros commander Eduardo Pereira Rossi (nom de guerre "El Carlón") was the mastermind behind the ambush and killing of five policemen near San Isidro Cathedral on 26 October 1975.<ref>30,000 Desaparecidos. Realidad, Mito y Dogma : Hhistoria Verdadera y Manipulación Ideologica, Guillermo Rojas, p. 246, Santiago Apóstol: 2003</ref>
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Mario Firmenich, who later became the leader of the Montoneros, was the ex-president of the Catholic Action Youth Group and a former seminarian himself. The Montoneros had ties with the Third World Priest Movement and a Jesuit priest, Father Carlos Mugica, SJ. The Third World Priest Movement believed that the Church could not remain neutral in the conflict between the Peronist and anti-Peronists and a number of priests participated in the armed struggle
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Mario Firmenich, who later became the leader of the Montoneros, was the ex-president of the Catholic Action Youth Group and a former seminarian himself.<ref>Modern Tyrants: The Power and Prevalence of Evil in Our Age, Daniel Chirot, p.281, Free Press, 1994</ref>The Montoneros had ties with the Third World Priest Movement and a Jesuit priest, Father Carlos Mugica, SJ.<ref>Encyclopedia of Modern Worldwide Extremists and Extremist Groups, Stephen E. Atkins, p.201, Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004</ref>The Third World Priest Movement believed that the Church could not remain neutral in the conflict between the Peronist and anti-Peronists and a number of priests participated in the armed struggle.<ref>Masters of War: Latin America & United States Aggression from the Cuban Revolution through the Clinton Years, Clara Nieto & Chris Brandt, p.163, Seven Stories Press, 2003</ref>
    
==Rural guerrilla warfare==
 
==Rural guerrilla warfare==
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