Political dissidence was not tolerated, and this is shown in both “State Violence” and The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival. According to Alicia Partnoy, a survivor of the regime’s torture, “almost 30,000 Argentines “disappeared” between 1976 and 1979, the most oppressive years of the military rule” (Partnoy, 11) and many were never found. Those taken by the government were brutally tortured, starved, and beaten with little to no explanation as to why they were taken. This government also “heavily censored the media and annulled the constitution” (Partnoy, 13), further proof of just how far backwards the country had regressed. The economy was also in shambles, and the entire country beared “the scars of police brutality” and “state violence” (Nouzeilles, 396). By the time this regime collapsed, Argentina had taken enormous steps backwards from
Political dissidence was not tolerated, and this is shown in both “State Violence” and The Little School: Tales of Disappearance and Survival. According to Alicia Partnoy, a survivor of the regime’s torture, “almost 30,000 Argentines “disappeared” between 1976 and 1979, the most oppressive years of the military rule” (Partnoy, 11) and many were never found. Those taken by the government were brutally tortured, starved, and beaten with little to no explanation as to why they were taken. This government also “heavily censored the media and annulled the constitution” (Partnoy, 13), further proof of just how far backwards the country had regressed. The economy was also in shambles, and the entire country beared “the scars of police brutality” and “state violence” (Nouzeilles, 396). By the time this regime collapsed, Argentina had taken enormous steps backwards from