[SANITIZED]LATIN AMERICA WEEKLY REVIEW 13 APRIL 1978 - 1978/04/13

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 06627975
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 4
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: April 13, 1978

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LATIN AMERICA WEEKLY REVIEW
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This Publication' is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington community by
the Latin America Division, Office of Regional and Political Analysis, with occa-
sional contributions from other offices within the National Foreign Assessment
Center and from other agencies within the Intelligence Community. Comments and
queries are welcome. They should be directed to the authors of the individual
articles.
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Human Rights Developments
Argentine human rights organizations have expressed
concern for the safety of prisoners following their
release from prison. In the past two months, at least
five prisoners have disappeared shortly after they were
released late at night. Two other persons reportedly
disappeared last month after attending a mass for a
Paraguayan refugee.
The assassination on 10 April of an undersecretary
in Argentina's Ministry of Economy is the first major
terrorist incident in almost a year. The style of the
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attacklsuggetts it wai the wOrk of one of the nation's
two ma3or leftist terrorist organizations, the Peoples
Revolutionary Army or the Montoneros.
The action is almost certainly calculated to focus
attention on economic grievances at a time when the govern-
ment'siausterity measures are coming under increasing
political attack. Neither of the terrorist groups, which
have been hard hit by the militar �overnment
to become a more serious threat.
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