An indoctrination meeting for new members of Tacuara, the officially banned neo-Nazi organization in Buenos Aires, was held in the Argentine capital over the weekend, it was learned today. Tacuara, which claims 5000 members in a country of 23,000,000 population, says its activities essentially involve secret meetings and anti-Jewish slogan-painting on building walls. But Jewish groups and other have linked it to murders, bank robberies and arson. After six members were acquitted in the killing of Raul Alterman, a 32-year-old Jewish salesman, other members boasted of having indeed killed him in revenge for the deaths of three Tacuarans in a gunfight. The Delegacion de Asociaciones Israelitas Argentinas (DAIA), Argentina’s largest Jewish organization, has called Tacuara “a small group of mentally sick youngsters,” unrepresentative of the general Argentine population. Informed sources contend, however, that some of the members are sons of top military officials.
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