Word: juntas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...launched a special 24-hour march of resistance. As onlookers applauded, 5,000 protesters marched amid a sea of waving banners, crying, "We want them back!" Even when youths insulted and spat on police, the officials did not strike back. But on the following day the three-man military junta exacted its revenge: a 15-point Law of National Pacification, in which the military sought to erase forever the embarrassing memory of its actions...
Under the new law, the junta nullified all penal actions against both dissidents and the military who brutally suppressed them in Argentina's infamous "dirty war." The dissidents, however, have already been punished with a vengeance: most of them vanished during the dirty war. In effect, the military was absolving itself of its earlier atrocities. It even declared that anyone associated with those crimes could never in the future be "interrogated, investigated, cited or confronted." The umbrella law also applies to those who have already been convicted, including some 200 members of the armed forces...
...crackdown on leftist guerrillas in the late '70s, the so-called dirty war, in which at least 6,000 people disappeared. The final blunder, however, was Argentina's ill-fated 1982 seizure and subsequent loss of the British-held Falkland Islands. In February the military junta of President Reynaldo Bignone announced plans to return the government to civilian hands...
...America. All ran holiday-themed stories about the politically troubled American labor union movement. There were notable differences, of course: the networks played up stories for which they had vivid pictures-the police crackdown against antigovernment demonstrators in Chile, an air raid in Managua by opponents of the Nicaraguan junta. Without comparable footage, the News-Hour dealt with these events in a few sentences. Says Lehrer: "The networks will spend $25,000 to rush home a videotape of a building burning in Beirut. We are more interested in perspective...
Mexico has used its Contadora connection to put quiet pressure on the Nicaraguan regime. It was probably no coincidence that Nicaraguan Junta Coordinator Daniel Ortega Saavedra waited only two days to express support for the Contadora group's July 17 declaration. Mexico, which had been providing Nicaragua with crude oil at 100% credit, recently told Nicaragua that it will now have to start paying off its oil bill...