From the inside of Tucumán´s strategic towns: counterinsurgency, population displacement and forced urbanization by Colombo, Pamela

“…In the deployment of counter-insurrection policies, not only is the annihilation of the “enemy” what is sought, but also “to win the hearts and minds” of the civilian population. It was within this logic that, at the beginning of the Argentine military dictatorship (1976-1983), the “Rural Relocation Plan” emerged in the province of Tucumán, which forcibly displaced 500 peasants who were scattered in the Tucuman bush and who were regrouped afterwards within four towns createdin the Operations Zone: Teniente Berdina, Soldado Maldonado, Capitan Cáceres and Sargento Moya. …”
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