Editing Roberto Eduardo Viola (section)

===Foreign policy===
[[File:Ronald Reagan, Roberto Viola and Jorge A Aja Espil.jpg|thumb | 220x124px | right | Viola met with [[Ronald Reagan]] and Argentine Ambassador [[:es:Jorge A. Aja Espil|Jorge A. Aja Espil]] at the [[White House]] on March 17, 1981.]]

[[Argentina-United States relations]] improved dramatically with the [[Ronald Reagan]] administration, which asserted that the previous [[Carter Administration]] had weakened US diplomatic relationships with [[Cold War]] allies in Argentina and reversed the previous administration's official condemnation of the junta's [[human rights]] practices.<ref>Rossinow, pp. 73, 77–79</ref>

The re-establishment of diplomatic ties allowed for [[Central Intelligence Agency|CIA]] collaboration with the Argentine intelligence service in arming and training the Nicaraguan [[Contras]] against the [[Sandinista National Liberation Front|Sandinista]] government. The [[Batallón de Inteligencia 601|601 Intelligence Battalion]], for example, trained Contras at [[Lepaterique]] base, in Honduras. Argentina also provided security advisors, intelligence training and some material support to forces in [[Guatemala]], [[El Salvador]] and [[Honduras]] to suppress local rebel groups as part of a U.S.-sponsored program called [[Operation Charly]].<ref>[http://www.clarin.com/suplementos/especiales/2006/03/24/l-01164353.htm "Los secretos de la guerra sucia continental de la dictadura"], [[Clarín (Argentine newspaper)|Clarín]], March 24, 2006 {{in lang|es}}</ref>