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ARGENTINA’S MISSING BONES
VIOLENCE IN LATIN AMERICAN HISTORY
Edited by Pablo Piccato, Federico Finchelstein, and Paul Gillingham
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ARGENTINA’S MISSING BONES
Revisiting the History of the Dirty War
James P. Brennan
Photographs by Mercedes Ferreyra
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS
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University of California Press
Oakland, California
© 2018 by James P. Brennan
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Brennan, James P., 1955– author. | Ferreyra, Mercedes, photographer.
Title: Argentina’s missing bones : revisiting the history of the dirty war / James P. Brennan; photographs by Mercedes Ferreyra.
Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018] | Series: Violence in Latin American history ; 6 | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2017050752 (print) | LCCN 2017052779 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520970076 (ebook) | ISBN 9780520297913 (cloth : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780520297937 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Argentina—History—Dirty War, 1976–1983. | Córdoba (Argentina)—History—20th century—Case studies. | Trials (Crimes against humanity)—Argentina.
Classification: LCC F2849.2 (ebook) | LCC F2849.2 .B743 2018 (print) | DDC 982—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017050752
Manufactured in the United States of America
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For Córdoba’s disappeared and their families
Contents
1.Threats: Apostles of the New Order
2.Dictatorship: Terrorizing Córdoba
4.Institutional Dynamics: The Third Army Corps
5.Transnational Dynamics: The Cold War and the War against Subversion
6.Five Trials: Public Reckonings of a Violent Past
7.Remembering: Memories of Violence and Terror
8.Assigning Blame: Who Was Responsible for the Dirty War?
Epilogue
Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Appendix 3
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Sometimes books are the result of an opportunity. The changes in human rights policies under the government of Nestor and Cristina Kirchner (2003–2015) made feasible undertaking serious historical research on the state terrorism of Argentina’s last military dictatorship. Previously, the obstacles were daunting. The systematic destruction of the military’s records on its conduct during the so-called dirty war, an attempted erasure of all incriminating evidence, seemed to preclude research beyond oral histories, most notably those of the victims. The Kirchners revived the human rights issue and made it a central component of a governing strategy, repealing the previous amnesty laws, resuming trials and on an unprecedented scale of those accused of crimes during the dictatorship, establishing monuments and “memory sites” to memorialize its victims, even assembling archives for purposes of litigation if not historical research. I could not have written this book without these fortuitous changes.
Beyond favorable circumstances in Argentina, I have benefited from the support of various institutions and individuals. A research fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities permitted a year of research (2010–2011) in Argentina and a visiting fellowship the following year at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC, allowed some additional research and preliminary writing on the subject. I am grateful to the staff at the latter and especially the director of the Latin America program there, Cynthia Arnson, for their support and for creating such a stimulating environment to share my research and learn from that of other fellows. In Argentina, my debts are many but I would like to thank especially the staff of the Archivo Provincial de la Memoria in Córdoba for their efforts to assist me in multiple research visits to the archive at a time of enormous activity for them with the trials and the human rights issue generally in the city. Despite hectic schedules and multiple demands on their resources, they