Political repression
According to a 1983 article in "[[The New York Times]]", the group was founded when there were an increasing number of guerrilla attacks by [[left-wing politics|left-wing militant]] groups, which were met by harsh [[Political repression|repression]] of [[political dissident]]s on the part of the [[Military of Argentina|military]], [[paramilitary]] and [[police force]]s. This environment of social unrest was the justification used by the subsequent military junta for its [[Dirty War]] against political opponents. But testimony at the 1985 [[Trial of the Juntas|Juicio a las Juntas]] trial established that by 1976, both the [[People's Revolutionary Army (Argentina)|ERP]] and the [[Montoneros]] had been dismantled, and the political dissidents had never posed a real threat to the government.