Argentina

BBC: Listening to the bones

Tens of thousands of people have been killed in Latin America's violent conflicts. Many are buried in mass graves or as "no names". One team is helping to identify those that have gone missing over the past four decades. The Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology...

Héctor Natalio Sobel: desaparecido 1976 Remembered

Dear fellow Latin Americanists and friends- This past March 24th marked the fortieth anniversary of the 1976 'golpe de estado' which brought to power the most brutal and murderous military regime in Argentina's history.  Over the course of...

The Pope’s History Reflects the Church’s Past

The Pope's History Reflects the Church's Past NACLA Report Mar 20 2013 by Kyle Barron "The election of Pope Francis has brought many issues to the fore that represent not just the complexity of a person, but the complexity of the Catholic Church. This was...