Argentina: Information on the Movimiento Todos por la Patria (MTP)
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 July 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | ARG6589 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Argentina: Information on the Movimiento Todos por la Patria (MTP), 1 July 1990, ARG6589, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6acd654.html [accessed 17 September 2023] |
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The attached articles contain a number of references and some details on the MTP. These state, among other things, that the MTP was created ca. 1988 and had Jorge Baños as its leader (see "Alfonsín tries to pre-empt military"). The attached documents include:
-from Latin American Weekly Report: "Brazilian military react sharply to Argentine barracks attack" and "Alfonsín tries to pre-empt military", 9 February 1990, pp. 1, 3; "Identifying the La Tablada raiders", in , 20 April 1989, pp. 6-7; "Comeback for Argentina's Left?", 24 May 1990, central pages;
-"Argentina under Alfonsín", in Latinamerica Press, 11 May 1989, p. 6;
-"Extremist tied to death of Somoza", Associated Press, 27 January 1989;
-pages 16 and 34 of "Peronists' triumph in Argentina", in Current History, January 1990.
The book Political Parties of the World (London/Chicago: St. James Press, 1988), p. 19 describes briefly the MTP as "a left-populist party which was invited to join the FREPU broad left alliance in December 1986".
Additional corroborating information could not be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC.