Ambassador to the OECD (2003-2007). “[Argentina’s] security forces are totally out of control,” Assistant Secretary of State Harry Shlaudeman told Kissinger in 1976. By giving a deadline of 30 days to present cases in court, the legislation deeply jeopardized the prosecution of the military, making it de facto impossible for the victims to be heard. “Human rights are not a fashion statement. After democracy was reinstated, it became clear not only that this regime had been the cruelest ever experienced by the Argentinians, but also that the prolonged involvement of the military in politics had enabled them to continue interfering with the public administration long after having left the government. The majority thought that Luder would win, which is where I put my hand up, but a significant minority, maybe a third of the country team thought Alfonsin would win.…. The government didn’t focus on it, the press didn’t focus much on it…. The Justicialist Saul Menem had an easy game in winning the next elections. One final attempt was made at generating a conventional rural-based insurgency. The cruelty of the dictatorship, Alfonsín’s broken promises for justice, Menem’s pardons, and the not always transparent policies of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner have made the Argentinians very vigilant and extremely aware of the frailty of their pursuit of justice. The first official brought to trial was Miguel Etchecolatz, the police commissioner of Buenos Aires during the 1970s. This is what we were saying to the seventh floor [of the State Department, where the Secretary and other senior officials have their offices] and to the White House in position papers, that there was some good coming out of this. Don't miss our latest interviews with sharp readers and thinkers on issues that matter to you. In 1975 the Army was ordered to Tucuman to eradicate the insurgents and restore the province to the Argentine state, and did so swiftly and ruthlessly. However, the military junta drew the line at murdering pregnant mothers. In a year or two it would change anyway, and they never had been able to govern themselves very well, so what did we really expect? The Peronists are often authoritarian, and the military were more comfortable with them. This dinner a week before the election was the only time in my five years in Argentina that I dined alone with an active-duty general in his personal quarters. Videla had already been serving a life sentence at the time. “Nunca mas” – “never again” – has become the rallying cry of a population that insists that history should not repeat itself. And, of course, one of the sad things about the Kirchner government is their attempts to re-vindicate the Montoneros. 18-05-2016 19:26:34 ZULU. They were troublemakers.” It wasn’t that it affected such wide numbers of people. Argentina was the operations center for Plan Condor, a U.S-organized alliance between the dictatorships of Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay, created in 1975 and operational until around 1980. They were allowed to give birth in the detention centers, only to be murdered shortly thereafter. Though the Argentinian government’s official estimate is 10,000 disappeared, multiple human rights groups have placed the estimate around 30,000. The PRN became quickly and sadly known as the “Dirty War”. There were body parts all over the field. Anthony Freeman Many people, both opponents of the government as well as innocent people, were "disappeared" in the middle of the night. He is a lawyer and writer. It just didn’t excite people as much as what happened over in Chile. And because it’s inhabited by Argentines, it’s been a disaster. The junta had thought that it could reclaim these islands relatively easily, that England wouldn't mind their loss, and that the government would regain its popularity and control over its people. Sady Doyle is the founder of Tiger Beatdown. I had the notion of a great deal of deception going on and imagined there were operations where Army units pretended to be from the Navy, or vice versa, just to hide their unit’s identity and defend themselves from any future acts of retribution (or justice). “The Dirty War” as they called it. Robert B. Morley was ARA Policy Planning Coordinator from 1979-1982 and discusses the ill-conceived Falklands/Malvinas invasion; he was interviewed by Kennedy beginning July 1997. How did the holocaust affect support for Jewish homeland in Palestine. Even in the waning days of the dictatorship, human rights groups began filing freedom of information requests and writs of habeas corpus with the dictatorship, to little effect. Aún sigo esperando el RESULTADO NEGATIVO del ADN, que carajo les pasa???? I used my contacts with the Radicals to suggest that they make contact with military leaders to give them confidence that a Radical government would not try to eliminate the military as an institution.