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Judi Lynn

(160,598 posts) Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:13 PM Mar 2014

Argentina marks coup anniversary

Argentina marks coup anniversary
Tuesday 25th Mar 2014

People across Argentina have marked the anniversary of the 1976 coup that unleashed a wave of repression in which tens of thousands of dissidents "disappeared."

Argentinians held a Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice for the estimated 30,000 victims of the coup-installed military dictatorship's so-called national reorganisation process.

As part of the clampdown, better known as the dirty war, supporters of former president Juan Perón and his third wife Isabel, who was president from 1974-76, were rounded up and tortured alongside Marxists and socialists.

Current President Cristina Fernandez paid homage to her late husband Néstor Kirchner, who was instrumental in scrapping an amnesty law during his own presidency so that dirty war criminals could be prosecuted.

More:
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/a-fcb4-Argentina-marks-coup-anniversary#.UzHitGePLIU

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Interesting to read in the article there were around 70 detention centers Judi Lynn Mar 2014 #1

Judi Lynn

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1. Interesting to read in the article there were around 70 detention centers

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Tue Mar 25, 2014, 04:17 PM

Mar 2014

for the political prisoners throughout Argentina during the US-supported military junta.

One prisoner they tortured became the late President of Argentina, Nestor Kirchner, husband of Cristina Fernandez.

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