The piece highlights how Argentina was slowly coming back into global attention after years of silence. It cites a U.S. report presented to General Videla in late 1977 that estimated nearly 6,000 people executed since the 1976 coup and between 12,000 to 17,000 political prisoners. The report broke down how many were detained or killed across categories like workers, intellectuals, union activists, and relatives or defenders of prisoners, and revealing the scale of the repression. It ends by stressing that this brutality wasn’t distant or abstract anymore, but a form of barbarism right at the world’s doorstep.
MATIAS JOFRE 