Roberto Arredondo oral history with Robert A. Potash: transcript and documents
Description:
Robert Potash's notes and transcript of an interview with General Roberto Arredondo and letters including one from Arredondo to General Don Eduardo Castro Sánchez. The interview with Arredondo covers his opinions on the groups that went against Illia's government as well as his political viewpoints. Correspondence between Potash and Arredondo discusses the trials and subsequent sentencing of the officers involved in the April 2 uprising, the Colorado revolt, and documents held by Eduardo Ávalos' wife that would clarify his position. The remaining letters discuss the West Point Conference. Also contains some of Potash's notes on changes in the Army under Perón, anti-peronism, legalismo, the divisions in the Army, and nationalism.
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