Argentina’s ‘Soiled Struggle’ nonetheless on trial 50 years later

Within the early hours of March 24, 1976, army officers led by General Jorge Rafael Videla arrested President Isabel Peron and declared that the armed forces had taken management of Argentina.

Peron’s management from 1974 to 1976 had been marred by runaway inflation, strikes, political violence and occasion infighting. In opposition to the backdrop of terrorist bombings and employees’ strikes, Videla’s regime initiated a marketing campaign of brutal state terrorism referred to as the “Soiled Struggle.”