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CNN
December 29, 2017
Related: Obama admits fault in U.S. response to Argentina's 'Dirty War'. As the woman adjusts to a jarring new reality, organization officials did not reveal her identity or that of the family that raised her. Her parents, Maria del Carmen Moyano and Carlos Poblete, were kidnapped sometime in April or May ofÃÂ ...
BBC News
December 28, 2017
A court in Argentina has granted house arrest to an 88-year-old former police officer who was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. Miguel Etchecolatz headed police investigations in Buenos Aires province from 1976 to late 1977, when Argentina was ruled by a military junta. EtchecolatzÃÂ ...
teleSUR English
December 27, 2017
The former officer was the head of the Bueno Aires police in the first years of the military dictatorship. Miguel Etchecolatz, a former senior police officer during the U.S. backed Dirty War in Argentina in the 1970's and 80's, was granted house arrest on Wednesday. RELATED: Argentina Sentences 6 to Life inÃÂ ...
Deutsche Welle
December 19, 2017
According to official data, about 13,000 people were kidnapped, tortured and disappeared as part of the campaign to eliminate leftist dissent during Argentina's so-called "dirty war." Rights groups, however, put the number of victims at 30,000. A number of police and military officials have already beenÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
December 13, 2017
In Argentina, DNA technology is helping thousands of families to reunite with their missing relatives. About 30,000 people were killed by government forces in the 1970s and 80s during the so-called Dirty War. Many of their young children were put up for adoption or lied to about their parents. Today, fortyÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
November 30, 2017
Twenty-nine of the 54 members of Argentina's security services have been jailed for life, for their role in a massive series of human rights abuses. Their crimes took place when Argentina was under military rule - between 1976 and 1983. During that period, it's thought thousands of people disappeared inÃÂ ...
Salon
December 10, 2017
I'd just learned about Argentina's Dirty War (1976-1983) — not in a history class but obliquely, in Anne Carson's novel-in-verse "Autobiography of Red." I dove into independent research, trying to understand. The recent history shocked me: up to 30,000 people were “disappeared” by the right-wing militaryÃÂ ...
Haaretz
December 4, 2017
Argentina's internal security ministry this week offered a $30,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Teodoro Anibal Gauto. He is wanted for questioning on crimes against humanity — murder, torture and the abduction of minors — in the “dirty war” during the 1976-83 military dictatorship.
Eurasia Review
December 2, 2017
Due in part to legitimate political anxieties with roots in the Argentine Dirty War, as well as budgetary constraints, the military has been reduced to one of its lowest states of combat readiness in the country's modern history. This is not necessarily a bad thing, given the horrendous track record of human rights ...
Council On Hemispheric Affairs
December 1, 2017
Due in part to legitimate political anxieties with roots in the Argentine Dirty War, as well as budgetary constraints, the military has been reduced to one of its lowest states of combat readiness in the country's modern history. This is not necessarily a bad thing, given the horrendous track record of human rights ...
NPR
December 1, 2017
Two former naval officers were among 29 people given life sentences Wednesday in Argentina for their involvement in human rights abuses carried out during the country's "Dirty War," a brutal period of military dictatorship from 1976-1983.
Aljazeera.com
November 30, 2017
Twenty-nine of the 54 members of Argentina's security services have been jailed for life, for their role in a massive series of human rights abuses. Their crimes took place when Argentina was under military rule - between 1976 and 1983. During that period, it's thought thousands of people disappeared inÃÂ ...
eNCA
November 30, 2017
Both men had already been sentenced to life imprisonment in prior trials. Some 30,000 people were kidnapped, tortured and killed in what became known as Argentina's "Dirty War," according to rights groups. Victims included Montonero guerrillas, labour union leaders, students, leftist sympathizers and in ...
Deutsche Welle
November 30, 2017
Seeking justice for 789 named victims of the Naval Mechanics School (ESMA) — the junta's biggest clandestine torture center, which held an estimated 5,000 prisoners, only a few hundred of whom survived — prosecutors called about 800 witnesses during the five-year trial, Argentina's largest yet. In prior ...
New York Times (blog)
November 29, 2017
Taiwan provided anti-Communist psy-ops training; Argentina contributed counterintelligence and interrogation techniques from its own Dirty War; South Africa supplied communications equipment and training; while Israel provided weapons for the soldiers and infantry. A small number of Spanish-speaking ...
BuzzFeed News
November 19, 2017
During the Dirty War, a term coined by the regime that ran Argentina at the time, hundreds of babies were systematically stolen from political prisoners and gifted to people close to the ruling elite. Ricardo Lederer, who worked as an obstetrician at Campo de Mayo, one of the largest detention, torture, and ...
NPR
November 3, 2017
PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: The wounds left by Argentina's dark past are easy to find on these streets. We're beside a morgue in Buenos Aires. Inside lies Santiago Maldonado. Outside, along the morgue's stone wall, there's a shrine honoring him. The shrine began to appear spontaneously some two weeks ...
Art Newspaper
December 31, 1999
Vigo lived through Argentina's Dirty War (1974-83), during which right-wing death squads hunted down left-wing guerrilla fighters. His ephemeral work criticised the military dictatorship and US foreign policy, and some of his pieces referred to the fact that his son became one of “the disappeared” who wereÃÂ ...
Indiana Daily Student
December 31, 1999
He's referred to the period between 1976 and 1982 as the “dirty war,” a propaganda phrase used by the dictatorship itself to justify its actions. In a Buzzfeed interview, he even questioned the official number of “the disappeared” or los desaparecidos: “I have no idea. That's a debate I'm not going to enter,ÃÂ ...
The Times
December 31, 1999
During Argentina's “Dirty War”, which lasted from 1974 to 1983, babies born to captured leftists were given to military families in a scheme that was designed by its perpetrators to prevent a new generation of “subversives”. An estimated 500 children were illegally adopted and their true identities hidden byÃÂ ...
Hollywood Reporter
December 31, 1999
Survey, a sector of the fair that focuses on pre-millennium art, will be loaded with works of political commentary such as Edgardo Antonio Vigo's firsthand account of the "Dirty War" in Argentina. Independent curator and critic Philipp Kaiser takes on the fair's Public sector in Collins Park, with site-specific ...
Jweekly.com
September 20, 2017
For someone who writes about sobering topics — the Holocaust, the Stalinist purges and the persecution of Jews during Argentina's “Dirty WarÃÂ ...
artnet News
September 19, 2017
... to Argentinian artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo, a key figure in the Latin American avant garde who lived through Argentina's so-called “Dirty War.
teleSUR English
September 17, 2017
In a landmark ruling, Argentina's Court of Tucuman sentenced 17 people ... Independence' during the U.S.-backed Dirty War in Argentina in theÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
September 16, 2017
Six Argentinians sentenced to life for 'Dirty War' role ... of committing crimes against humanity during Argentina's 'Dirty war' era in the 1970s.
Jewish Journal
September 14, 2017
16 at The Getty Center — “Photography in Argentina, 1850-2010: ... which included a Dirty War during which more than 30,000 people wereÃÂ ...
Jewish Journal
September 13, 2017
Stern is perhaps the most prominent among the Argentine-Jewish ... which included a Dirty War during which more than 30,000 people wereÃÂ ...
Toronto Star
September 7, 2017
Pope Francis recently revealed that decades ago in the 1970s, when he headed the Jesuits in Argentina, he'd seen a psychoanalyst “to clarifyÃÂ ...
Independent Online
September 5, 2017
Two retired military officers were sentenced to life in prison on Friday for the murder of a Catholic bishop during Argentina's 1976-1983 militaryÃÂ ...
The Tablet
September 5, 2017
Papal biographer Paul Vallely pointed out that this was a time when Argentina was in the midst of its “dirty war” where a military dictatorshipÃÂ ...
euronews
September 2, 2017
There have been angry scenes in Argentina as tens of thousands of ... forcibly 'disappeared' during the country's 'Dirty War' between 1976 andÃÂ ...
The Guardian
September 1, 2017
Pope Francis said his weekly visits to a psychoanalyst for six months helped him 'clarify things'. Photograph: Alessandra Tarantino/AP.
PEOPLE.com
August 23, 2017
The Argentinian-born royal visited the Jessehof homeless center in Delft ... Argentinian government), as well as the beginnings of the Dirty War,ÃÂ ...
Forward
August 20, 2017
... a Jewish family whose son is disappeared during Argentina's Dirty War, it suggests that his talents best lend themselves to a shorter format.
Pacific Standard
August 19, 2017
The state of chaos came to be known as "the Dirty War. ... car manufacturer collaborating with the Argentinian government in the 1970s have toÃÂ ...
The Times
August 9, 2017
Dutch queen's junta father dies in Argentina ... an Argentine politician linked to the country's “dirty war” and human rights abuses in the 1970sÃÂ ...
The Tribune
August 9, 2017
Jorge Zorreguieta, the father of Argentina-born Maxima Zorreguieta, now ... of Dirty War atrocities taking place while he was a cabinet minister.
The Economist
August 3, 2017
During Argentina's “dirty war” in the 1970s it was the only newspaper that denounced the disappearances of thousands of Argentines under theÃÂ ...
JURIST
July 28, 2017
Argentina sentences former judges for crimes against humanity ... Argentina for alleged crimes against humanity during the country's "dirty war.
teleSUR English
July 26, 2017
Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Support Venezuela's ... who were disappeared by the military regime in the U.S.-backed Dirty War.
CTV News
July 26, 2017
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina -- Four former federal judges in Argentina were sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for crimes against humanityÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
June 8, 2017
In this June 3, 2017 photo, Liliana Furio, second from right, holds a banner reading in Spanish: "Disobedient Stories," during a protest inÃÂ ...
NBCNews.com
June 8, 2017
In this June 3, 2017 photo, Liliana Furio, second from right, holds a banner reading in Spanish: "Disobedient Stories," during a protest inÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
May 26, 2017
The streets of Argentina's cities went white on May 10 as tens of thousands donned the iconic headscarf of the Mothers and Grandmothers ofÃÂ ...
Los Angeles Times
April 27, 2017
President Trump on Thursday handed over to Argentine President Mauricio Macri a trove of declassified documents from the South AmericanÃÂ ...
Mintpress News (blog)
December 31, 1999
A man looks at photos of people who dissappeared during the “Dirty War” in Argentina during an event to commemorate the 30th anniversary ofÃÂ ...
Broadway World
December 31, 1999
... Kafka, and testimonies from Chicho Vargas and other political prisoners held in Rawson Prison during Argentina's "Dirty War" of the 1970s.
The Independent
December 31, 1999
Jorge Zorreguieta was a wealthy landowning Argentinian who was later ... of the “dirty war” military junta during the 1970s and early 1980s.
Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (blog)
December 31, 1999
The Buenos Aires Herald, the Argentine capital's English-language ... Cox wrote in the forward to his biography "Dirty Secrets, Dirty War.
Standard-Examiner
December 31, 1999
In Argentina's “dirty war” that lasted until 1983, thousands of dissidents disappeared at the hands of the military regime, some cast into theÃÂ ...
