As a student, he was very politically active, but left the city and returned to the Patagonia at the start of the Dirty War.
While doing social work in 1976 during the Dirty War in a poor neighborhood, Jalics and Orlando Yorio were captured by a death squad, abducted, and held captive for five months.
The political turmoil of this era inspired her to write her novel Viene Clareando, which focuses on the impact of Argentina’s Dirty War on its citizens.
Febres was accused of having tortured dissidents during Argentina's Dirty War period.
Dirty War (2004) (TV) as Nicola Painswick, Minister for London
In particular, he asserts that "Argentina was the theater of Marxist revolutionaries who sow violence and terror in the citizenry", but does not mention state-sponsored terrorism in Argentina at all.
Jorge Eduardo Acosta (27 May 1941), alias "el Tigre" ("The Tiger") was an Argentine captain of corvette, head of the Work Group (Grupo de Tareas) 3.3.2 of the ESMA naval school and in charge of this detention center during the Dirty War.
During this period the Argentine government was undertaking the systematic massacre of guerrillas, unionists, university leaders, and political militants known as the Dirty War.
She was believed killed by the military regime of Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla during the Dirty War.
She wrote and edited left-wing literary journals during the Dirty War of state-sponsored violence in the 1970s and 1980s, using veiled critiques as a means of protest and engaging in vigorous debate with exiled writers such as Julio Cortázar.
Amadeo was involved in the disappearances during the Dirty War and was personally responsible for law 22068 which allowed the government to declare anyone disappeared for 90 days as legally dead.
2006 marked his second Silver Condor nomination for playing the real-life Dirty War victim Guillermo Fernández in Chronicle of an Escape, which also marked his second collaboration with Caetano and co-starred name actors Rodrigo de la Serna and Pablo Echarri.
Kedar's film Asesino, on the disappearance and presumed murder of thousands of young Jews during the Dirty War following the 1976 coup, won the Noga Award at the 2001 Jerusalem Film Festival.
A return to democracy in 1983 allowed Argentine artists to create works critical of the climate of abuses prevalent during the preceding dictatorship and Soriano was cast as the lead in Mercedes Frutos' 1984 film version of Adolfo Bioy Casares' Otra esperanza ("Another Hope"), a horror narrative set in a factory with secrets - a timely metaphor for much of the repression that had targeted industrial workers.
He was alleged to have served the junta by participating directly in its Dirty War against political opponents, dissidents, and activists, under the name Miguel Angel Cavallo and pseudonym "Serpico." He served with the G322 secret operations.
She directed four films since she started her career in 1980, and produced one of them, the documentary Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo (1985, with co-director Lourdes Portillo), about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who looked for their disappeared children during the Dirty War.
Fidel Nadal and Horacio "Gamexane" Villafañe said in an interview to Pelo magazine that the name of the band refers to the casualties in Argentina's Dirty War, to Pope John Paul II motto Totus Tuus.
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He felt that some of the most brutal torturers during Dirty War, such as Alfredo Astiz, were "heroes," and even once attempted to use his influence over the Menem administration to have a monument built in their honor.
Azucena Villaflor (7 April 1924, Avellaneda –- 10 December 1977) was an Argentine social activist, and one of the founders of the human rights association called Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which looked for desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance during Argentina's Dirty War).
Growing international pressure against the regime's Dirty War resulted in a petition campaign organized by Para Tí, in which postcards labeled "Argentina: The Whole Truth" could be torn out by readers and mailed to a list of addresses of the regime's most prominent international critics, including U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Senator Ted Kennedy, and French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing, as well as Amnesty International and numerous international newspapers of record.
Consequently, in 1991, the survivors' groups contacted Dr. Clyde Snow, a renowned U.S. forensic anthropologist who had previously overseen exhumations in Argentina in the wake of that country's Dirty War and had helped found the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team.
In 1997, Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón requested the arrest and extradition of 45 members of the Argentine military, and one civilian, for crimes of genocide, state terrorism, and torture committed during the "Dirty War" period of the de facto regime, including Anaya.
Her last acting performance was in Kindergarten (1989), a controversial film by Jorge Polaco, censored one day short from its release (the first case of censorship in the country following the end of the Dirty War six years prior).
Nevertheless he was heavily criticised for defending the repression and military illegal actions of the military government, for allegedly protecting the officers involved, and for setting back the reconciliation process that had been started by his predecessor, Martín Balza.
The defense of superior orders again arose in the 1961 trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Israel, as well as the trial of Alfredo Astiz of Argentina, the latter responsible for a large number of disappearances and kidnappings that took place during that country's Dirty War.
In 1970 the factory that produced the Trejo pistol, along with three more that manufactured other weapons, were closed by Presidential Decree as a result of social problems that were occurring in Mexico at the time (now known as the Dirty War).