Extras for Readers of “To Save the Nation”

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Resources: Argentina’s Dirty War

For a brief history and a bibliography on the Dirty War in Argentina, provided courtesy of Prof. Anne J. Barry. 

For a transcript of the October 7, 1976 meeting between then Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and the Argentine military, evidencing U.S. support of the efforts of the Argentine military to wipe out the leftist opposition.

For a video report of a child of a disappeared couple in Argentina, raised by a military family, see “Nieto Recuperado - Born to Parents Disappeared by Argentina’s Dictatorship, Kidnapped and Raised by a Military Family, a ‘Recovered Grandchild’ Finds His Way Home.”

For films about Argentina’s Dirty War, see the following:

“Our Disappeared” (2008) (a documentary by a Boston-based Argentine film maker about his personal search to find friends and loved ones caught in the vise of the military and who disappeared in Argentina during the Dirty War)

“Imagining Argentina” (2003) (a political thriller centered around a couple living through the dictatorship during the Dirty War; the husband has the power to see the fate of missing people, except his own wife); and 

“The Official Story” (1985) (the story of an upper middle-class couple who live in Buenos Aires with an illegally adopted child, and the mother finally comes to realize her daughter may be the child of the one of the disappeared).

Resources: Enforced Disappearances Today

For further information on the work of the U.N. with regard to enforced disappearances, see

For a brief overview of forced disappearances, including a summary of activities that fall into that category in recent times, see

For special reports on disappearances in a number of countries in recent times, see