Word: harguindeguy
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...Former Senator Hipólito Solari Yrigoyen, known for his firm defense of human rights during the Peronist years, was kidnaped from his home in southern Argentina in mid-August. Although Interior Minister General Albano Harguindeguy personally tried to find him, the search took two weeks. Solari was finally pitched out of the back of a truck, together with another legislator who had been kidnaped at the same time. Both men were immediately rearrested by the army...
After Torres' assassination, Argentine Interior Minister General Albano Harguindeguy denounced a "well-directed campaign from abroad aimed at undermining the prestige of the new authorities and hindering the process of national reorganization." Harguindeguy was referring to what he called "false" charges-mainly in the European press -that Argentina has failed to protect political refugees; many of his fellow officers suspect that the murders are the work of right-wing Peronist death squads trying to discredit the Videla government...
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