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11/15/2020
Can the COVID Crisis Create a New Civilian-Military Trust in Argentina?
by David M. K. Sheinin y Cesar R. Torres
Many Argentinians have been suspicious of military involvement in civil affairs since the end of the country's military dictatorship in 1983. Two scholars ask if the COVID crisis presents an opportunity for healing and reimagining the military's role in Argentina.
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SOURCE: New York Times
11/20/2020
How to Shame a Dictator
The families of victims of Argentina's far-right "dirty war" didn't let the perpetrators go unpunished after regime change; they took direct action to expose those who committed crimes and pressed for the repeal of amnesty laws.
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SOURCE: The Conversation
5/10/19
Truth, justice and declassification: Secret archives show US helped Argentine military wage ‘dirty war’ that killed 30,000
by Rut Diamint
The archives narrate the human rights abuses committed by Argentina’s military government, often with the assistance of the United States.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
4/12/19
Trump Administration Turns Over Massive Collection of Intelligence Records on Human Rights and Argentina
The 47,000 Pages of CIA, FBI, NSC, DOD and State Dept. Records Touted as “Largest” Government-to-Government Transfer of Declassified Documentation
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
3/24/19
Trump Administration to Turn Over Trove of Declassified Records to Argentina on Human Rights Violations Committed During Military Dictatorship
The turnover of formerly secret U.S. intelligence records—the collection will include CIA, FBI, NSC, and Defense Intelligence Agency documents—will culminate a special U.S. government declassification project authorized three years ago today by then-President Barack Obama.
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SOURCE: NBC News
6-20-17
Hidden Trove of Suspected Nazi Artifacts Found in Argentina
Some 75 objects were found in a collector's home in Beccar, a suburb north of Buenos Aires, and authorities say they suspect they are originals that belonged to high-ranking Nazis in Germany during World War II.
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SOURCE: NYT
12-29-16
Argentine Court Reopens Investigation of Ex-President in ’94 Bomb Case
A court reopened a criminal complaint that accuses former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner of a cover-up in connection with the 1994 bombing of a Jewish center.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
12-12-16
Obama Declassifies Top Secret Intelligence Files on Repression in Argentina
New documents shed light on OPERATION CONDOR, including planned missions in Europe and assassinations of leaders in Amnesty International.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
8-11-16
Declassified U.S. Records Highlight Argentine Military Abuses, Internal Carter White House Debate over Human Rights Policy
Records show Kissinger sought to undermine human rights message in Argentina.
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SOURCE: The Guardian
8-9-16
Kissinger hindered US effort to end mass killings in Argentina, according to files
Newly declassified files show the former secretary of state jeopardized efforts to crackdown on bloodshed by Argentina’s 1976-83 military dictatorship.
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SOURCE: National Security Archive
8-8-16
U.S. Policy in Argentina Declassified
The records document repression in Argentina during the years the country was run by the military.
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SOURCE: NYT
3-24-16
Obama Expresses Regret for U.S. Policies During Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’
The United States “has to examine its own policies as well, and its own past,” the president said at a memorial to victims of the war in 1970s and ’80s.
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SOURCE: NYT
3-17-16
NYT editorial calls on Obama to reveal America’s role in the Argentine dirty war
Obama’s visiting Argentina during the 40th anniversary of the coup that led to the dirty war.
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SOURCE: WaPo
3-23-15
Secret Nazi hideout believed found in remote Argentine jungle
"We can find no other explanation as to why anyone would build these structures, at such great effort and expense, in a site which at that time was totally inaccessible."
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SOURCE: Truth Dig
2-11-15
Argentina’s History of Assassinations and Suspicious Suicides
by Sebastian Rotella, ProPublica
The persistence of state-connected violence and intrigue in Argentina goes way back.
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3-1-15
You Can Blame Juan Peron for Argentina’s Inflation
by Eduardo Singerman
It was the result of out and out fraud.
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SOURCE: Al Jazeera America
1-19-14
Argentina's Truth Commission at 30
by Fabián Bosoer and Federico Finchelstein
A monumental victory for global justice, Conadep's model should be followed more closely by other war-torn countries.
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SOURCE: Telegraph (UK)
8-1-13
Memos reveal six months of planning behind Thatcher's top secret visit to the Falklands
Margaret Thatcher’s 1983 visit to the Falklands was akin to a military operation in its own right and followed six months of meticulous planning.The prime minister visited the islands for four days in January to mark the 150th anniversary of the establishment of a permanent British settlement.The trip, less than eight months after the end of the conflict, had to be kept secret because of the “significant” threat from Argentina, confidential government files show.The documents, released today by the National Archives under the new 20-year rule, include extensive briefings from the Ministry of Defence marked “Secret UK Eyes A” about travel arrangements....
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SOURCE: BBC News
7-29-13
Inca mummies: Child sacrifice victims fed drugs and alcohol
Scientists have revealed that drugs and alcohol played a key part in the months and weeks leading up to the children's deaths.Tests on one of the children, a teenage girl, suggest that she was heavily sedated just before her demise....The mummified remains were discovered in 1999, entombed in a shrine near the summit of the 6,739m-high Llullaillaco volcano in Argentina.Three children were buried there: a 13-year-old girl, and a younger boy and girl, thought to be about four or five years old.Their remains date to about 500 years ago, during the time of the Inca empire, which dominated South America until the Europeans arrived at the end of the 15th Century....
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SOURCE: NYT
6-10-13
Outpost on pampas where Jews once found refuge wilts as they leave
MOISÉS VILLE, Argentina — At its height in the 1940s, this outpost on Argentina’s grasslands had four synagogues for a population of 5,000, a theater for Yiddish-language acting troupes, a newspaper filled with feverish debates about the creation of the state of Israel and saloons where Jewish gauchos galloping in from the pampas could nurse a drink alongside fellow cowhands.Now, Moisés Ville, founded in 1889 by Jews fleeing the pogroms of the Czarist Russian empire, has only about 200 Jews among its 2,000 residents. The last regularly functioning synagogue lacks a rabbi. The Hebrew school halted classes this year because of the dwindling number of Jewish children. Some of the last remaining Jewish gauchos have swapped their horses for Ford pickup trucks, and they now ponder the future of their way of life.
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