After a military junta led by Gen Jorge Videla seized power in Argentina on 24 March 1976 ... killed or forcibly disappeared during the "Dirty War", as the campaign came to be known.

In the 1970s and ‘80s, during Argentina’s so-called “Guerra sucia” — “Dirty War” — a fascist military junta ruled with a ...

A court in Argentina has granted house arrest to an 88-year-old former police officer who was serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity. Miguel Etchecolatz headed police investigations ...

A documentary, "Traslados", explores the grim legacy of Argentina's death flights, where thousands of dissidents were rounded ...

In Argentina, police arrested former Navy Capt ... who lost two sons and a daughter-in-law in the "dirty war," said Monday she found no joy in the arrests. "You can never take back the horror ...

Context clues: During Argentina’s Dirty War, Jacobo Timerman, the founding publisher of a newspaper called La Opinión, was held prisoner by state agents, stripped of his citizenship, and eventually ...

He is considered the brains behind the junta's “dirty war” campaign against political ... the Navy Mechanics School in Buenos Aires became Argentina's main clandestine torture centre.

Javier Milei has been in office for less than a year, but he has taken his chainsaw to the government, as he promised. He ...

civic discredit stemming from the 1976–82 Dirty War, combined with serial economic mismanagement, also contribute to the poor state of the Argentine military. Argentina had a formidable military ...

Forensic anthropologist Alexa Hagerty’s work faced her with the brutality of the genocides in Guatemala and in Argentina’s “Dirty War” – and with the bureaucratic violence of state ...

The epoch in Argentina’s history is also frequently referred to as the Dirty War. Throughout the park, you can experience different artwork and sculptures that tell the story of this dark time in ...

Argentina’s 1976 military coup d’état, along with the sustained period of violence and forced disappearances that it ushered ...