Priest Gets Life for 'Dirty War' Crimes
A former Roman Catholic priest who delivered dozens of Argentines to the former military junta was sentenced to life in prison yesterday. Christian von Wernich, 69, passed his parishioners’ confessions...
View ArticleArgentina Baby Snatch Witness Dies in Trial
Days before he was to testify about the Dirty War disappearance of twins born to a political prisoner, a former Argentine army officer has been found dead of a gunshot wound to the head, the BBC...
View ArticleTwo Pilots Face Extradition in Dirty War Death Flights
Two Argentines charged with piloting notorious "death flights" during the country's brutal military dictatorship are facing extradition. The pilots, one arrested in Argentina and the other in Spain,...
View ArticleArgentina Media Heirs May Have Been Stolen Babies
Brother and sister heirs to one of Argentina's largest media companies are being forced to undergo DNA testing to determine if they were stolen as babies from tortured political prisoners to be handed...
View Article106th Stolen Baby Identified in Argentina
One hundred and six, and counting: A group dedicated to reuniting children snatched during Argentina's "Dirty War" with their biological families has just completed its 106th case, reports the BBC ....
View ArticleDark Cloud in Francis' Past: The Dirty War
Although responses to Pope Francis have been chiefly positive , one dark stain in church history is raising serious questions about the new pope—the church's role during the dictatorship in Argentina,...
View ArticleArgentine Dictator Videla Dies in Prison
Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called...
View Article36 Years Later, Activist Finds Grandson Stolen in Dirty War
A group devoted to tracking the children taken from parents murdered in Argentina's "Dirty War" and placed with families who supported the military regime has found its 114th "stolen child"—the...
View ArticlePriest Gets Life for 'Dirty War' Crimes
A former Roman Catholic priest who delivered dozens of Argentines to the former military junta was sentenced to life in prison yesterday. Christian von Wernich, 69, passed his parishioners’ confessions...
View ArticleArgentina Baby Snatch Witness Dies in Trial
Days before he was to testify about the Dirty War disappearance of twins born to a political prisoner, a former Argentine army officer has been found dead of a gunshot wound to the head, the BBC...
View ArticleTwo Pilots Face Extradition in Dirty War Death Flights
Two Argentines charged with piloting notorious "death flights" during the country's brutal military dictatorship are facing extradition. The pilots, one arrested in Argentina and the other in Spain,...
View ArticleArgentina Media Heirs May Have Been Stolen Babies
Brother and sister heirs to one of Argentina's largest media companies are being forced to undergo DNA testing to determine if they were stolen as babies from tortured political prisoners to be handed...
View Article106th Stolen Baby Identified in Argentina
One hundred and six, and counting: A group dedicated to reuniting children snatched during Argentina's "Dirty War" with their biological families has just completed its 106th case, reports the BBC ....
View ArticleDark Cloud in Francis' Past: The Dirty War
Although responses to Pope Francis have been chiefly positive , one dark stain in church history is raising serious questions about the new pope—the church's role during the dictatorship in Argentina,...
View ArticleArgentine Dictator Videla Dies in Prison
Former dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, who took power over Argentina in a 1976 coup and led a military junta that killed thousands of his fellow citizens in a dirty war to eliminate so-called...
View Article36 Years Later, Activist Finds Grandson Stolen in Dirty War
A group devoted to tracking the children taken from parents murdered in Argentina's "Dirty War" and placed with families who supported the military regime has found its 114th "stolen child"—the...
View ArticleHer Identity Was a 40-Year-Old Secret. Then It Unraveled
Violeta Ortolani was eight months pregnant when she was detained by Argentina's military in 1976 during the country's "Dirty War." Following the January 1977 birth of her daughter, the 23-year-old...
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