Argentina's Dirty War: The Case Of Argentina

Argentina’s Dirty War was characterized by mass killing and mass terror imposed on the community. A great number of the victims were left winged activists, militants, guerillas, student at universities, blue collar workers and journalist, which were all thought to be a political or ideological threat to the military junta which had the name of (Liberating Revolution). The military junta sought to break up any form of relation to communism, killing anyone who was believed to be associated with socialism. A government that was solely against communism and reached extreme measures, a government that was inset to protect Argentine as a democratic nation but instead, went on a different direction and basically became a dictatorship. The desire
He was taken to a secret detention center called La Ribera, where he was interrogated. He was forced to tell the men about his family. The military junta was in search of Senor Elena’s daughter and his son in law. The junta had no intentions of releasing him until the couple was caught. Nearly a month after he had been detained Senor Elena was released after enduring threats, being maltreated, and made to witness the excesses of repression. Another case is that of the Candelas family, which involved eight armed men entering the Candelas home looking for Adela Ester Candela de Lanzilotti and her husband Osvaldo Daniel Lanzilotti. Adela and Osvaldo were not present so instead the men took Adela’s parents Maria Angelica Albornoz de Candela and Enrique Jorge candela. Upon learning that the couple was at Adela’s grandmothers house they threatened to kill the grandmother’s son and daughter-in-law. The Lazilotti couple was able to flee but the Candela couple remained as one of the disappeared. In Argentina, truth, or the promise of truth, became one of the foundational principles of the newly formed democracy, as symbolized in the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons truth commission which was created to help Argentina transition from state terror and repression to a society based in the rule of law. Truth and memory became very important even though it was very.
The Rondoletto family on November 2nd, 1976 was taken by a group of men in broad daylight. The family consisted of Pedro Rondoletto, Maria Cenador de Rondoletto, Silvia Margarita Rondoletto, Jorge Osvaldo Rondoletto and Azucena Ricarda Bermejo de Rondoletto, all of which were carried away blindfolded with bags over their heads. The Rondoletto family was never seen again. The Coldman family were amongst one of the most well-known in Cordoba, the entire family was nearly disappeared. On September 21st 1976 the Coldman’s house was raided by men dressed in military uniforms. The men took David Coldman, his wife Eva Coldman and their daughter Marina Coldman. They took all but one of the Coldman family members, Ruben who was sleeping at the time of the raid. The junta did not care for the safety of the families of those who were deemed as suspects. Getting rid of complete families, decreased the threat of people speaking out so in a sense it became a tactic used. Disappearance was the preferred method used by the Junta which explains why the estimated total is around thirty-thousand. To this day there are thousands of bodies still not discovered. The Junta blamed the mass terror by exaggerating the threat of the rebels. The junta reported that, between 1969 and 1978, the guerrillas had inflicted 515 deaths on military and police, and killed 172 civilians. The abducted were