Rosa Roisinblit was getting ready for her weekly salon appointment when she received the phone call that would alter the ...

Is it better, for the health of a society, to pardon or punish the perpetrators?” Caught “between the drive to forget and the ...

Argentina's junta is widely considered the most deadly of the military dictatorships that ruled much of Latin America in the 1970s and 1980s. It detained, tortured and killed people suspected of ...

"Now I know where my brother is!" she said, sitting with a black-and-white photo of their parents: Graciela Alicia Romero and ...

A military junta led by Gen Videla seized power in Argentina in 1976. Under its rule, a so-called "dirty war" was waged against left-wing opponents, whom the military accused of terrorism. Human ...

Santiago Omar Riveros, torture camp chief for Argentina’s junta, dies at 100 Gen. Riveros ran the notorious Campo de Mayo during the 1976-1983 “Dirty War” against political dissent under ...

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — Former junta leader Jorge Videla and 16 other ex-military officials will be prosecuted on charges of conspiring with other South American governments in a regionwide ...

In 1985, Argentina became the only country in Latin America where a civilian government went to trial against its own military junta—part of this testimony is what appears in the exhibition ...

The priest, formerly a military chaplain in junta-ruled Argentina, had returned to his hometown near Parma, in northern Italy, in 2011, after trials against pro-junta figures had started in Argentina.

Argentina’s Junta Trial Was About More Than a Few Good Men. Relying on Hollywood clichés, “Argentina, 1985” offers a pat, sentimentalized view of history.