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God's assassins : state terrorism in Argentina in the 1970s / Patricia Marchak ; in collaboration with William Marchak.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marchak, M. Patricia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political violence--Argentina--History--20th century.
- Political violence.
- Disappeared persons--Argentina--History--20th century.
- Disappeared persons.
- Terrorism--Argentina--History--20th century.
- Terrorism.
- State-sponsored terrorism--Argentina.
- State-sponsored terrorism.
- Argentina--Politics and government--1955-1983.
- Argentina.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (406 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- God's Assassins tells the story of state terrorism in Argentina through interviews with participants on all sides of this issue. They include military officers, "third world" priests, Catholic church officers who supported military objectives and methods, former members of guerrilla movements, survivors of prison camps, journalists, trade unionists, and others who experienced state terrorism in Argentina. Patricia Marchak combines excerpts from these interviews with documents and media reports from the time and her own insightful study of Argentina's history to provide an analysis of the process as well as the causes of state terrorism. The graphic and moving interviews in God's Assassins show the complexity of these causes and indicate that there is no simple explanation of the period. Was the head of a major guerrilla movement a double agent? Did the intelligence service actually believe it was engaged in the third world war? Why did the Catholic church turn on its own priests? Through her interviews, Marchak reveals much that will never appear in official documents.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Coping with State Terrorism
- Historical Origins
- A Violent History
- Peronism and Militarism
- Unionism
- A Very Brief Revolution
- Escalation of Violence
- The Dirty War
- Imprisoned under PEN
- El Proceso
- Revolutionaries and Sceptics
- Tucuman
- The Media and the International Context
- The Central Institutions of the Repression
- A Deeply Divided Church
- Third World Priests' Movement
- The Military Defence
- Other Military Perspectives
- Conclusion
- Revolutionary Organizations, 1960s to Early 1970s
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [359]-376) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-85842-4
- 9786612858420
- 0-7735-6821-2
- OCLC:
- 166335090
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