were to die a few days later MARIO EMILIO DELFINO (ERP) HUMBERTO SEGUNDO SUAREZ (ERP) ANNA MARIA VILLAREAL DE SANTUCHO (ERP) (wife of Roberto Santucho) JOSE RICARDO MENA (ERP)
JORGE ALEJANDRO ULLA (ERP) ALFREDO ELIA KOHON (ERP)
WOUNDED ALBERTO MIGUEL CAMPOS (FAR) RICARDO RENE HAIDAR (Montoneros) MARIA ANTONIA BERGER (FAR) The Montoneros are an armed Peronist organisation. Together with the FAR, the FAP (Fuerzas Armadas Peronistas - Peronist Armed Forces) and the Descamisados (literally: "shirtless""), they form a front called the Peronist Armed Organisation, which politically and militarily co-ordinates the activity of these armed groups. This front recently went through a crisis, provoked by the problem of relations between these armed groups and the (Peronist) Justicialist Movement which has a perspective of participating in the Great National Agreement (the plan for a new constitutional government through elections in March, 1973). Since this crisis it seems that there has been an evolution in the Montoneros, especially among its cadres in prison, away from the official Peronist movement. The Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias (Revolutionary Armed Forces), a Marxist tendency, emerged from the Castroist support groups which were set up in Argentina to assist the develonment. on a continental scale of Che's guerrilla offensive. After the set-back in Bolivia. the FAR moved at first towards Peronism and joined the Peronist Armed Organisation. However, in the last year it has moved away from the official Peronist movement and entered into a process of discussion with the ERP. The FAR first achieved prominence with the occupation of the town of Garin in the province of Buenos Aires. On 10 April, 1972, a mixed commando group of FAR and ERP militants executed the torturer General Sanchez on the doorstep of his headquarters in Rosario. The FAR is the most important of the Peronist organisations:
The Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (Revolutionary Workers Party), Argentinian section of the Fourth International, decided at its congress in July 1969 to set up the ERP (Ejercito Revolucionario del Paeblo -People's Revolutionary Army). It was this organisation, one of the most renowned in Latin America, which kidnapped Silvester, the British coneul and director of the Swift meat company in Rosario: which robbed the Development Bank (the largest seizure of funds ever carried out in Argentina); and which kidnapped Oberdan Sallustro, director of the Fiat motor company in Cordoba. The ERP has always been considered by the Argentinian state forces to be the most powerful of the armed organisations, despite the recent arrests which have affected our comrades. At the time of the escape from Rawson, a joint ERP-FAR communique explained that this action had been undertaken jointly in order to "reaffirm our desire to unite, and to work together with the other armed arganisations in the struggle against the government and against imperialism"; Having stated the ideological differences which exist between the two organisations, the communique pledged that they would continue the process of discussion in order "to analyse our differences and to conduct a public debate on them so as to adopt the solution which is most correct and most meets the needs of the Argentinian revolution.