Montoneros

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Montoneros (Spanish: Movimiento Peronista Montonero, MPM) was a far-left, revolutionary guerrilla organization in Argentina, which emerged in the 1970s during the "Argentine Revolution" dictatorship. The Montoneros advocated an ideology combining revolutionary Peronism, Falangism, and Camilism; they were officially Roman Catholic. The organization's name referred to the 19th-century cavalry militias called Montoneras, which fought for the Federalist Party in the Argentine civil wars. The Montoneros were radicalized by the political repression of anti-Peronist regimes, the influence of the Cuban Revolution, and liberation theology worker-priests; they grew from the 1960s Catholic revolutionary guerrilla Comando Camilo Torres as a "national liberation movement", and they synthesized revolutionary Peronism, Guevarism, and the revolutionary Catholicism of Juan García Elorrio shaped by Camilism. The Montoneros fought for the return of Juan Perón to Argentina and the establishment of "Christian...

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