269:("beardless brats") and mercenaries to the service of foreign interests. The organisation was proscribed after Perón's death in July, and by September Norma and her companions were forced to live in hideouts and to meet in secret. Meanwhile, the guerrilla operations against security forces reached its climax in 1975. On 24 March 1976, a military coup overthrew president
273:. The armed forces stepped up the repression not only of leftist guerrillas, but also of their affiliates and even relatives. Arrostito was reported shot and killed after a fierce exchange of gunfire with an army patrol on 2 December 1976. The truth was that Arrostito was captured alive and illegally imprisoned at the Navy's school of mechanical engineering, the
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