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Argentines commemorate coup as Milei sows doubt about dictatorship past

Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters Thousands of Argentines took to the streets around the country on Sunday to commemorate the anniversary of the 1976 military coup that lasted eight years and led to widespread repression, torture and disappearances. Several local and human rights groups gathered in Buenos Aires, waving banners, singing songs and carrying photos of […]

Italy approves extradition of priest wanted for murder, torture during Argentina dictatorship

Rome, ItalyAP Italy’s justice minister has approved the extradition of an Italian priest sought by Argentina on charges of murder and torture during that country’s last military dictatorship but the priest is appealing the extradition in Italian courts, a lawyer and rights groups said Thursday. Attorney Arturo Salerni, who represents Argentina, told The Associated Press […]

AI imagines kids of victims kidnapped during Argentina dictatorship

Argentine art director Santiago Barros, 46, looks at a portrait he generated with the artificial intelligence app Midjourney, recreating by imagining how the son of Marta Bugnone and Jorge Ayastuy, who disappeared during Argentina's last dictatorship may look like today, during an interview with Reuters, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 24th July, 2023.

Buenos Aires, Argentina Reuters A project by Argentine artist Santiago Barros uses artificial intelligence to imagine what the children of those who disappeared during the country’s bloody military dictatorship (1976-1983) would look like today. “Seeing them look you in the eyes, it makes you question, it reminds you the horror is still out there, that […]

Argentina “death flight” plane returned from US

A plane used in the last Argentine military dictatorship by the Naval Prefecture under registration PA-51, used in 1977 to throw alive into the sea three members of the organisation Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a group of women united by the disappearance of their children during the last Argentine dictatorship, two French nuns and several activists in one of the "death flights", is seen on the tarmac of Jorge Newbery International Airport in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on 26th June, 2023.

Buenos Aires, ArgentinaReuters Argentine officials on Monday welcomed the return of an airplane from which the country’s last military dictatorship threw political opponents to their deaths, and that will now be part of a museum dedicated to the victims’ memory. The turboprop plane took part in the so-called “death flights” that Argentina’s bloody 1976-1983 dictatorship […]

Pope says Argentina Government wanted “my head” when he was in Buenos Aires

Pope Francis meets Argentina's President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner during a private audience at the Vatican, on 7th June, 2015.

Vatican CityReuters Pope Francis said that when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires more than a decade ago, the Argentine Government wanted “to cut my head off” by backing false accusations that he had collaborated with the military dictatorship of the 1970s. Francis made his comments on 29th April in a private conversation with Jesuits […]