 He continued to be a leader of the PRT and the ERP through to the beginning of the Argentine Dirty War, spanning the governments of Héctor José Cámpora (1973), Juan Perón, and Isabel Martínez de Perón, the last of which was cut short by the coup that started the National Reorganization Process (1976).Prior to joining the insurgency around 1970, he lived in Rosario, 70 km from his birthplace, and worked for two years in the Swift meat packing plant.In an interview he alleged that insurgent organizations gained thousands of recruits in the area at the time.