A per subscription access to a digital collection comprising 2,429 selected government documents, chronicling the development of U.S. policy as it attempts to deal with the tragedy experienced in Argentina during the critical, formative period of the late 1970’s, which featured a political collapse verging on civil war; a military coup; and massive illegal detentions, torture and kidnappings.

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When did it happen?

Project Director

Carlos Osorio

Advisory Panel

Patricia M. Derian (Assistant Secretary of State for Human Rights

and Humanitarian Affairs, 1977-1981)

F. Allen ‘Tex’ Harris (Political Officer, United States Embassy,

Argentina, 1977-1979)

Professor Laura Lenci (Faculty of Humanities, Universidad de La

Plata, Argentina)

Professor Marcos Novaro (Instituto de Investigaciones Gino

Germani, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)

Doctor Mario del Carril (Bachelor of Liberal Studies Program,

School of Continuing Studies, Georgetown University)

Professor Silvia Tandeciarz (Chair, Modern Languages and

Literatures, College of William and Mary)

Professor Betsy Konefal (Lyon G. Tyler Department of History,

College of William and Mary)

Professor William Michael Schmidli (Department of History,

Bucknell University)

ARGENTINA 1975-1980: THE MAKING OF U.S.

HUMAN RIGHTS POLICY

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The collection shows U.S. officials grappling with human rights violations on a scale never heard of in the Western Hemisphere, underscored by the dramatic disappearance of tens of thousands of people at the hands of the security forces. The declassified records in this set, most of them acquired by National Security Archive project staff and never before published, illustrate the birth of human rights as a priority in U.S. foreign policy – along with more traditional concerns ranging from the spread of international communism to nuclear proliferation in Latin America.

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