Mexican Dirty War
Mexican theater of the Cold War (1964–1987)
Mexican Dirty War
The Mexican Dirty War (Spanish: Guerra sucia) was the Mexican theater of the Cold War, an internal conflict from the 1960s to the 1980s between the Mexican Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI)-ruled government under the presidencies of Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Luis Echeverría, and José López Portillo, which were backed by the U.S. government, and left-wing student and guerrilla groups. During the war, government forces carried out systematic torture, "probable extrajudicial executions", and an estimated 1,200 disappearances. In the mid 1960s, the PRI underwent a shift where they began to resemble a police state. The start of Mexico's Dirty War was slow and varied on administration and from region to region. In 1965 the Dirección Federal de Seguridad (DFS, Federal Ministry of Security) set up counterinsurgency units and sent military officers to the United States for training. Armed with weapons from Belgium, United States, and Israel, in the 1970s the Mexican government escalated use of violent...
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