Argentina orders intense search for missing witness to bishop’s death during dictatorship

Source: Associated Press

Argentina orders intense search for missing witness to bishop’s death during dictatorship
By Associated Press, Wednesday, April 20, 8:03 PM

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina’s president ordered all federal forces Wednesday to search for a key witness against a former military officer in the death of a bishop who tried intervene on behalf of victims of the dictatorship.

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Alak said President Cristina Fernandez personally ordered all federal police and other security forces to be used to find Martinez.

The mystery reminded many Argentines of the still-unsolved 2006 disappearance of Jorge Julio Lopez, who hasn’t been heard from since shortly after accusing a formerly high-ranking police official of crimes against humanity.

Martinez was the sole witness to the death of Bishop Carlos Horacio Ponce de Leon, who died in a car accident in July 1977 as the two men were driving to deliver evidence of junta crimes to the Vatican’s representative in Argentina. The papers disappeared.

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being done. I hope that our war criminals are watching what is happening in S. America.

What they always forget are that the victims of their crimes and their loved ones, never forget and will keep trying to get justice no matter how much time passes.

I hope one day this country evolves to the point where the victims of Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld et al are no longer denied, as they are now, the justice they deserve.