News of military dictatorship

Argentina's dictatorship dug its own grave with Malvinas ‘military adventure’

01-04-2022 20:47 The junta's gambit was initially successful, yet the misadventure ultimately failed to breathe new life into the dictatorship floundering under mass human rights violations, social unrest and economic crisis, serving instead to precipitate its demise.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Human rights groups rename street at ex-ESMA for disappeared

04-09-2021 10:35 Government and human rights organisations rename street at ex-ESMA Navy Mechanics School to remember those disappeared at the hands of Argentina's brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

FILM

Director Santiago Mitre recreates Trial of the Juntas in new Amazon film

04-09-2021 10:32 Renowned actors Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani to play prosecutors Julio Strassera and Luis Moreno Ocampo in Santiago Mitre’s ‘Argentina, 1985,’ the first Amazon Original film produced in the country.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Court sentences duo to more than 20 years in jail for rape of prisoners at ESMA

13-08-2021 21:01 Two already convicted human rights offenders from the 1976-1983 military dictatorship receive additional sentences for sexual crimes committed at ex-ESMA Navy Mechanics School.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Supreme Court confirms 25-year prison term for BA Province minister's torturer

06-07-2021 16:47 Supreme Court confirms 25-year prison sentence against former Santa Fe provincial policeman Mario Alfredo 'Cura' Marcote, one of the torturers of current Buenos Aires Province Health Minister Daniel Gollán during the military dictatorship.

MARCH 24

Rights groups call for 30,000 trees to be planted in memory of disappeared

24-03-2021 14:04 Human rights groups, marking the 45th anniversary of the coup that brought the 1976-1983 military dictatorship to power, are planting frees in honour of those who disappeared at the hands of the military junta.

MARCH 24

Nation pauses to remember victims of military dictatorship

23-03-2021 22:05 On Wednesday, nation pauses for a public holiday to mark the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice, in remembrance of victims of the brutal military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Fernández urges Argentina to remember dictatorship ‘horror’

22-03-2021 16:36 Peronist leader calls on citizens to keep memory of crimes against humanity committed by 1976-1983 military dictatorship alive, with this year’s remembrance services set to be limited by coronavirus pandemic.

Latin America

Victims of Uruguay's dictatorship seek justice

19-03-2021 13:46 A group of Uruguayan women are seeking justice for the sexual abuse they suffered throughout the country's 1973 dictatorship. With few developments in the case, they have decided to approach the regional watchdog.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Slow justice for women abused by Chile's dictatorship

05-03-2021 12:22 More than 40,000 people were tortured and another 3,200 were murdered or disappeared in the 17 years of Augusto Pinochet's regime (1973-1990), which savaged women, making them victims of aberrant methods of torture specially focused on sexual violence.

Coronavirus pandemic

Miguel Etchecolatz, ‘Tigre’ Acosta test positive for coronavirus

06-08-2020 23:38 Two of the most infamous criminals convicted of crimes against humanity during Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976-1983), Miguel Etchecolatz and Jorge 'Tigre' Acosta, test positive for Covid-19.

by Luciana Bertoia