Gibraltor to be given to Spain in the next decade

[faded glory]

Originally posted by chegitz guevara


There were several coups (golpe in Spanish). The coup overthorwing Isabel Perón is the relevent one, which occured March 24, 1976. By the time of the war, there had been a second putting General Videla in charge of the country. Those Exocets were sold after one of the coups, at least (Carter had cut Argentina off because of their massive human rights violations--40,000 dead and disapeared).

Ya I remember watching a show on PBS. The dictatorship was extremely hard on the Communist miners.....and the population in general.

Ya but Exocets were french made. They bought them via france.....hell the french gave everybody arms. Iraq got Mirage's and ****loads of mechanized french artilerry

[Giancarlo]

Originally posted by faded glory


Ya I remember watching a show on PBS. The dictatorship was extremely hard on the Communist miners.....and the population in general.

Ya but Exocets were french made. They bought them via france.....hell the french gave everybody arms. Iraq got Mirage's and ****loads of mechanized french artilerry

The dictatorship was cruel.. and I disagree with its tactics.

The Argentinians actually had a nuclear weapons exchange program with Iraq in the 80s, until the US put a lid on that. And most of the Argentine airforce is either decent A-4s and Mirage IIIs.

[Roman]

I wonder whether all those Spaniards clamoring for Gibraltar would be as enthusiastic to give Ceuta "back" to Morocco.

[Par4]

Taking a page from the 'Omar guide to international diplomacy' How about we have Tony Blair and whoever is running Spain have a boxing match in Gibraltar, the winner's nation keeps the rock.

[Dauphin]

Originally posted by Par4
Taking a page from the 'Omar guide to international diplomacy' How about we have Tony Blair and whoever is running Spain have a boxing match in Gibraltar, the winner's nation keeps the rock.

I think *insert British poster* vs Giancarlo would be much more entertaining.

Edit - never put things between <> if you want them to appear in your post...

[chequita guevara]

The dictator before Videla was a ferocious anti-semite, and many Jews were tortured, disapeared, and exiled. Apparently they thought that there was a world-wide Jewish conspiracy to destroy Argentina (why the Jews would care about Argentina is beyond me).

Knowing a communist could get you tortured or disappeared. The '76-'83 military governments were probably the worst in Latin American history for sheer viciousness. Guatemala tops it only because that government had more time (30) years to kill it's 100,000 people. El Salvador killed 70,000 of it's own in ten years, but 5,000 of those people were killed by the rebels, so Argentina tops it by an additional 1,666 people per year.

[KrazyHorse]

I thought the number for Guatemala was closer to 200 000 than 100 000.