News of military dictatorship

'Nunca más’ – Massive march in Argentina, 49 years after coup

24-03-2025 20:11 Tens of thousands take to streets to remember dictatorship’s crimes and challenge President Javier Milei’s government.

BEYOND THE HEADLINES

When ugly ducklings are black swans

31-08-2024 05:27 How can the libertarian creed possibly have anything in common with the totalitarian model of a military dictatorship?

by Michael Soltys

HUMAN RIGHTS

30,000? The debate about how many were disappeared in Argentina

10-08-2024 06:55 How many people went missing in Argentina in total as victims of state terrorism and forced disappearances during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship? And why is it important to differentiate between those categories in order to clear up debates, even when installed due to cruelty or cynicism? Why does the canonic figure of 30,000 continue to be so powerful? And what can academic research contribute?

POLITICS

Milei reopens debate about dictatorship, Armed Forces

04-04-2024 18:51 President enrages human rights groups by questioning estimate of those disappeared by junta’s security forces and calls for “reconciliation” of the military in Argentina.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Silvia Labayrú: ‘I was the first, I believe, to give birth at ESMA’

17-02-2024 06:43 Silvia Labayrú is a survivor of one of Argentina’s darkest places during the 1976-1983 era of state terrorism. Held at the ex-ESMA Navy Mechanics School, which served as a clandestine detention centre during the dictatorship’s rein of terror, she was kidnapped, tortured and raped several times during her captivity. In a feature interview, she recalls her experience and reveals the horrors she suffered during those black days.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

Politics

Italy blocks extradition of dictatorship-era priest to Argentina

12-01-2024 16:44 Italian Minister Carlo Nordio ruled against Argentina’s extradition of Franco Reverberi on health grounds

HUMAN RIGHTS & ART

Pablo: the disappeared child who walks on waters of River Plate

18-11-2023 07:20 From the Parque de la Memoria in Buenos Aires, an ever steeper path winds up to the shoreline of the River Plate. In the distance, in the water, a child can be seen floating with his back turned, ebbing and flowing with the tide. The story of a unique statue, entitled ‘Reconstrucción del retrato de Pablo Míguez.'

by Sabrina Chemen

HUMAN RIGHTS

The imperious need to penalise denialism

27-09-2023 13:12 There are issues, like crimes against humanity, which should be beyond electoral speculation. With the same speed with which the government secured approval for amending the income tax threshold, it should also now approve a law to condemn denialism with the support of Juntos por el Cambio and a united opposition.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

GUEST VOICE

Victoria Villarruel, human rights, and truth

22-09-2023 05:19 Many victims and relatives of victims of armed organisations neither feel represented by, nor do they endorse, Victoria Villarruel’s claims and views on human rights.

by Gustavo Llarull**

HUMAN RIGHTS

UNESCO strives to ensure memory remains part of global heritage

19-09-2023 13:11 While UNESCO has universalist aspirations, memorials are ripe for appropriation for political causes – especially where they touch on bloody events of the past.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Victoria Villarruel on the military dictatorship and era of state terrorism

05-09-2023 11:58 Javier Milei’s running-mate leapt into politics from her militancy in organisations for "a complete memory" of the 1976-1983 era of state terrorism. Her statements on the military dictatorship, response to those who accuse her of denialism and the national deputy’s links with dictators.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Ex-Molinos executive arrested for role in dictatorship crimes

06-07-2023 00:52 Emilio Parodi, 82, arrested at home in Vicente López for alleged crimes against humanity; Former manager of Molinos Río de La Plata food company being investigated for role in kidnapping and disappearance of 23 workers during the era of state terrorism.