Dirty War

Obama does the tango with a dancer in Buenos Aires

The presidential tango: Was this really the right time for Obama to visit Argentina?

Global Politics

Thursday marks 40 years since the military coup in Argentina that began the “dirty war” dictatorship. A Nobel Peace Prize winner says President Obama should have skipped this trip.

Jorge Mario Bergoglio (center) now known as Pope Francis visiting a Buenos Aires slum in 1998.

Was Pope Francis silent during Argentina’s Dirty War?

Conflict
Argentine journalist Jacobo Timerman, shown at home June 21,199.

His father was a human rights icon. He’s in the middle of a scandal with a dead prosecutor.

Justice
Aurora Zucco de Bellocchio, a member of human rights organization Madres de Plaza de Mayo (Mothers of Plaza de Mayo), sits behind a pram with a picture of her daughter Irene Bellocchio and her partner Rolando Pisoni, who both disappeared in 1977, during t

How an American scientist helps grandmothers in Argentina find their ‘stolen’ grandchildren

Science
Estela de Carlotto, president of human rights organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo)

A grandmother in Argentina finds her grandson after nearly 40 years

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Estela de Carlotto, president of human rights organization Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo)

A grandmother in Argentina finds her grandson after nearly 40 years

Justice

Estela de Carlotto has been searching for her grandson for 36 years. He was stolen during the Dirty War in Argentina. Now, after nearly four decades she has found him.

Argentina’s Dirty War revisited after new pope is elected

Lifestyle & Belief

The selection of Jorge Bergoglio as the next leader of the Catholic Church has reopened old wounds from Argentina’s past during the Dirty War. But some activists say Pope Francis shouldn’t be lumped in with church figures who supported the dictatorship.

Brazil’s government establishes ‘Truth Commission,’ but expectations are low

Global Politics

Brazil was ruled by an abusive military dictatorship decades ago, like many other South American countries. But alone among its neighbors, Brazil has resisted efforts to confront and deal with that past. A new Truth Commission has been established to investigate, but no concrete actions are expected.

Pope Francis and Argentina’s Dirty War

Global Politics

The new Pope, formerly Jorge Mario Bergoglio, was head of the Jesuit Order in Argentina during much of that nation’s darkest episode, the so-called Dirty War in the 1970s and early ’80s. That has led to some uncomfortable questions there about his role.

The World

Brazil’s Truth Commission Under Fire from Military and Torture Victims

Conflict & Justice

Brazil is among the latest countries in Latin America to create a truth commission to investigate abuses during the country’s military dictatorship. But as John Otis reports, there’s little confidence in Brazil that the truth commission will do much good.