Word: videla
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Every Thursday the women stand in silent protest by the president's palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina. They don't do much--just hold up photos of missing family members and, looking pleadingly at the pink building, weep. Occasionally the military police of dictator General Jorge Rafael Videla drag the women away to join the ranks of their relatives--the Desaparecidos--the disappeared ones, who are either jailed or killed by the government. But usually the police just watch the women mockingly. "They're crazy," one said. "Everyone knows that...
Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla has emphatically denied any such involvement, though he said that he viewed the Bolivian military "with much sympathy." Videla did admit to sending food and money-to aid the Bolivian people rather than the military, he explained -"because we do not want in South America what Cuba signifies in Central America." The allusion was curious, considering that the Communists have not fared well in Bolivia since the failure of Che Guevara's 1966-67 effort to launch a people's war there...
...White House seemed just as surprised to learn that Argentina had enormous grain reserves ready for sale to the U.S.S.R., a fact known by any grain trader in Chicago. The U.S. then sent a special emissary to Argentina to ask Strongman Jorge Videla to cooperate in the U.S. embargo, but Videla, who had been pilloried by the State Department's human rights pronouncements, refused. The Soviets will be able to make up about 60% of the lost U.S. shipments. Concedes a senior State Department official: "The grain embargo has become symbolic...