Terrorism in Argentina
The Argentine president of the time, Raúl Alfonsín declared that the attack, which carried the ultimate goal of sparking a massive popular uprising, could have led to a civil war.
[8][9] During the 1998–2002 Argentine great depression a series of attacks were reported on 18 December in which an improvised bomb detonated in front of a commercial establishment, leaving only material damage.
[18][19][20] More a year later, in 21 December, of 2006 an improvised device detonated at an HSBC branch in Buenos Aires, days later a far left cell so-called "Brigada Venceremos" claimed responsibility for the attack.
Days later an anarchist group so-called "Brigada Internacionalista Insurreccionalista Rebeldes de Jacinto Araoz" claimed the incident in a web statement.
[27] On 19 July 2011 an improvised explosive device blast in front of a Telecom Argentina office in Belgrano, Buenos Aires, causing only material damages and no casualties were reported.
[30][31] Between 2011 and 2013, anarchist groups claimed the largest campaign of political violence in recent Argentine history without dead or injured with attacks that reached police patrols, government and bank buildings and private property.
[32][33] On 29 November 2011, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated at the main police station in the Buenos Aires city suburb of Avellaneda.
[36] On August 15, 2012, an improvised device blast in a FIAT dealership in Monserrat, Buenos Aires, causing slight material damage in one car.
[40] Resistencia Ancestral Mapuche (RAM) is a supposed armed organization based in the Argentine Patagonia, suspected of being an assembly of intelligence services.
According to Buenos Aires city security minister Marcelo D'Alessandro, the suspects were "tied to anarchist groups" and used a "quite sophisticated" homemade explosive device.
[43][44] In a separate incident the same day, a man threw an explosive device at the home of federal judge Claudio Bonadio in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires.
[43] According to the CIA's World Factbook, Hezbollah conducted operations in the 1990s and as of April 2018 maintains a limited presence in the country, with the aim of generating political and financial support from the Lebanese diaspora.
