Argentina's 'dirty war' (1976-83)
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[Kissinger approved killings where up to 30,000 people "disappeared."]

Declassified Docs Detail US Role in Argentina Dirty War Horrors

Pope Francis  (Jorge Mario Bergoglio)

Pope Francis and the Dirty War

Pope Francis and Argentina’s Military Junta’s Policy of Mass Assassinations  According to lawyer Myriam Bregman:  “Bergoglio’s own statements proved church officials knew from early on that the junta was torturing and killing its citizens”, and yet publicly endorsed the dictators. “The dictatorship could not have operated this way without this key support,”

[Media Aug 28, 2004] Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina

[2004] Cartels’ Soy Revolution Kills Argentine Farming by Cynthia R. Rush  The blame lies with the criminal financial predators behind the international food cartels—Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland, Bunge, etc.—that have systematically destroyed Argentina's food-producing capabilities over recent decades, replacing them with large-scale production of genetically-modified soy for export to a globalized market. The imposition of unbridled free trade, exemplified by Carlos Menem's embrace of the International Monetary Fund's policies during his 1989-1999 Presidency, has returned Argentina to "the colonial model of commodity export," Lapolla writes. "We have ceased to be a nation."
...Government ministries and scientific agencies once assigned to deal with problems related to real production have been roped into this offensive, prodded by such well-financed Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) as the British Crown's Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Greenpeace.
    Under the guise of protecting the environment, the WWF has supported the food cartels' "Sustainable Soy" model, advocating expanded soy production only, while simultaneously demanding that large swaths of land be set aside as pristine ecology parks, protected from "contamination"—and agricultural production.

[2003] Kissinger approved Argentinian 'dirty war'

[2002] Argentina's 'dirty war' hounding Kissinger

[1987] Kissinger and The 'Dirty War' by Martin Edwin Andersen

[1995] Another torturer reveals horrors of the Dirty War in Argentina

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Quotes
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n early 1977 Robert Hill, then the U.S. Ambassador to Buenos Aires, told a top Carter Administration official that Kissinger had given his approval to the repression in which at least 9,000 people were kidnapped and secretly murdered. [1987] Kissinger and The 'Dirty War' by Martin Edwin Andersen

Henry Kissinger gave Argentina's military junta the green light to suppress political opposition at the start of the "dirty war" in 1976, telling the country's foreign minister: "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly," according to newly-declassified documents published yesterday. [Media Aug 28, 2004] Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina

Books
The Flight: Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior by Horacio Verbitsky


Declassified Docs Detail US Role in Argentina Dirty War Horrors