Word: argentinas
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...addition, the Reagan Administration enlisted the aid of Argentina to act as a sort of bagman for the operation. U.S. funds first were sent to the Argentines, who in turn funneled them to the contras. Argentina also sent 200 military advisers to Honduras, but it reduced its contingent to a skeleton crew during the Falklands war last spring. Meanwhile, Washington established its own links with the Honduran military. Honduran soldiers were sent to training camps in Panama run by the U.S. Army's Southern Command Group (SOUTHCOM) and standard field equipment was provided...
...plea from Argentina's military rulers was a strange one, and bore signs of more than a little desperation. In a discreet radio and television announcement, the junta that has ruled the country since 1976 urged Argentine civilians to show "greatness of spirit," "patriotism" and "definitive national unity." Then the military government itemized a list of 15 topics on which it would like to see concertación (understanding) with local politicians, union leaders and perhaps even the Roman Catholic Church before the government fulfills a promise to return the nation to civilian rule in March 1984. The list...
...list contained among other things a series of restrictions on any future government that might want to investigate the military stewardship. Chief among the areas to be glossed over was military culpability in the fate of Argentina's desaparecidos (disappeared ones). At least 6,000 Argentines and foreign nationals vanished between 1974 and 1979 during the country's fratricidal struggle against left-wing terrorism. Also included on the proposed list of taboo topics was the military's humiliating defeat by Britain in last spring's Falkland Islands war, which resulted in 1,366 Argentine casualties...
...Argentina's military President, Retired General Reynaldo Bignone, appointed in the wake of the Falklands fiasco, reiterated that the promised return to democracy would take place on schedule. But many Argentine civilian leaders suspected that there was a dangerous alternative: if civilians were relentless in seeking the truth on some painful topics, the military would renege on its pledge to return to the barracks. Said a government official in Buenos Aires: "The military realize they have been discredited and want to go, but there's always the problem of the desaparecidos and the war. They must provide some...
Even as the junta issued its proposals, an international diplomatic storm continued to swirl over Argentina as a result of the discovery of some 1,500 unidentified bodies in unmarked burial sites across the country. The furor was ignited after an Argentine couple discovered the body of their son, Miguel Angel Sosa, in one of the cemetery plots. Subsequent investigations revealed that the corpses were stacked as many as six deep in unmarked graves, and that numerous victims had been killed with a single bullet in the head. Most of the bodies are still unidentified, but there is little doubt...