The Dirty War is the name used by the military junta or civic-military dictatorship of Argentina for its period of state terrorism in Argentina from 1974 to 1983. During this campaign, military and security forces and death squads in the form of the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance hunted down any political dissidents and anyone believed to be associated with socialism, left-wing Peronism, or the Montoneros movement.
The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo is an Argentine human rights association formed in response to the National Reorganization Process, the military dictatorship by Jorge Rafael Videla, with the goal of finding the desaparecidos, initially, and then determining the culprits of crimes against humanity to promote their trial and sentencing.
The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo is a human rights organization with the goal of finding the children stolen and illegally adopted during the 1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship. The president is Estela Barnes de Carlotto.
The Official Story is a 1985 Argentine historical drama film directed by Luis Puenzo and written by Puenzo and Aída Bortnik. It stars Norma Aleandro, Héctor Alterio, Chunchuna Villafañe and Hugo Arana. In the United Kingdom, it was released as The Official Version.
National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons was an Argentine organization created by President Raúl Alfonsín on 15 December 1983, shortly after his inauguration, to investigate the fate of the desaparecidos and other human rights violations performed during the military dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process between 1976 and 1983.
Azucena Villaflor was an Argentine activist and one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a human rights organisation which looks for the victims of enforced disappearances during Argentina's Dirty War.
Susana Blaustein Muñoz is an Argentine film director. She directed four films since she started her career in 1980. She also produced one of those films, the documentary The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (1985), with co-director Lourdes Portillo, about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who looked for their disappeared children during the Dirty War. This film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Her last film was 1993's Mi casa, mi prisión.
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Olympic Garage is a 1999 Argentine political thriller, directed by Marco Bechis.
Victoria Analía Donda Pérez is an Argentine human rights activist and legislator. She is the first daughter of a "disappeared" person, born in captivity, to become a member of the Argentine National Congress. She was the youngest woman to hold that office.
The Lost Steps is a 2001 Argentine and Spanish drama film directed by Manane Rodríguez and written by Rodríguez and Xavier Bermúdez. The film features Irene Visedo, Luis Brandoni, Federico Luppi, among others.
Enriqueta Estela Barnes de Carlotto is an Argentine human rights activist and president of the association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. One of her daughters, Laura Estela Carlotto, was kidnapped and missing while pregnant in Buenos Aires, in late 1977. Through stories, she could ascertain that her daughter had given birth to a boy, and that her grandson was appropriated and his identity changed. She searched for him for nearly 36 years, until, on 5 August 2014, after a DNA check voluntarily made by the person concerned, her grandson was identified, and became the 114th in the list of recovered grandchildren.
Nélida Gómez de Navajas was an Argentine human rights activist. She was one of the founding members of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Gómez's daughter, Cristina Silvia Navajas de Santucho, was kidnapped on July 13, 1976. It was later discovered that Cristina was two months pregnant at the time of her kidnapping. It was believed that Gómez's grandchild was born in the Campo de Mayo in February 1977. Her grandson was located in 2023 after he came forward as an adult to take a DNA test.
Matilde Herrera (1931–1990) was an Argentine journalist, writer, and poet. She was a prominent militant against the self-styled National Reorganization Process that took over the country between 1976 and 1983. She was one of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, for whom she personally contributed to the recovery of two children who had been illegally adopted.
Ana Teresa Diego was an Argentine student of astronomy forcibly disappeared by the military dictatorship of Argentina during the Dirty War on 30 September 1976. The asteroid 11441 Anadiego now bears her name.
Mirta Acuña de Baravalle was an Argentine human rights activist who was one of the twelve founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo associations.
Beatriz Haydée Catalina Aicardi de Neuhaus was an Argentine human rights activist, and one of the twelve founders of the association Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.
María Isabel Chicha Chorobik de Mariani, was an Argentine human rights activist. She was founder and second president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.
Celina Kofman was an Argentine human rights activist. By profession, Celina Kofman was one of the important members of the organization that was launched in the 1970s in the midst of the National Reorganization Process, after her son was kidnapped. He was a member from 1978 to 2000, where he had responsibility for the former Concordia and Santa Fe subsidiaries.
The Center for Legal and Social Studies is an Argentine non-governmental organization based in Buenos Aires. It was founded in 1979 and it is oriented towards the promotion and defense of human rights as well as the strengthening of democratic institutions. Its current president is social anthropologist Sofía Tiscornia.
Rita Arditti was an Argentine biologist, educator, activist, and writer.
