Abstract

ROSTICA, Julieta. The Collaboration and Coordination of the Repression of Political Dissent between Argentina and Honduras: Research Advances (1979-1983). Secuencia [online]. 2021, n.111, e1926.  Epub Nov 16, 2021. ISSN 2395-8464.  https://doi.org/10.18234/secuencia.v0i111.1926.

The article provides an exhaustive state-of-the-art analysis of the collaboration between the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983) in the “counter-subversive struggle” in Honduras and its coordination with other countries in the region, a critical analysis of existing production and its confrontation with systematized evidence from official Latin American archives. To this end, we examined military attaché offices, military training in Argentina, the formation of intelligence and operations coordination bodies, and military advisory services. Our hypothesis is that the Argentine military dictatorship collaborated with the governments of Honduras in a highly specific way that differed from other Central American cases: initially by forming intelligence and operations coordination bodies (1980-1981) and subsequently by sending military advisers (1982-1983). The main objective was not to repress local political dissent, or to persecute Argentine internationalists in Central America, but to interfere in the Salvadoran and Nicaraguan conflict.

Keywords : military dictatorship; Argentina; Honduras; repressive coordination; human rights violation.

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