http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/catholicchurch_2709.jsp Comments for "Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the 'dirty war', Horacio Verbitsky " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/catholicchurch_2709.jsp <p> <em>Argentina between 1976 and 1983 was wracked by a “<a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/argentina.htm" target="_blank">dirty war</a>” in which successive military regimes hunted down, tortured and “disappeared” tens of thousands of citizens. The process had begun when Argentina’s already febrile politics started to split open in the mid-1970s. The military seized power in a coup from <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/29/newsid_2857000/2857121.stm" target="_blank">Isabelita Peron</a>’s government, in the wake of an armed insurgency by <em>Montoneros</em> guerrillas. </em> </p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/catholicchurch_2709.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/catholicchurch_2709.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/democracy-protest/catholicchurch_2709.jsp#comment latin america Horacio Verbitsky Original Copyright Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0100 2709 at http://www.opendemocracy.net