http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/27/world/americas/argentina-dirty-war/index.html
This article is about the recent imprisonment of 18 ex-officials who were involved with the dirty war. I thought this fit really well with this week's readings, as it obviously touches upon many of the same situations and themes.
The article highlights a woman whose parents and grandmother were disappeared. She too was taken in 1977 but released a few days later (she was only 16 months). Never seeing her parents again, Marinela has waited thirty four years to see the people responsible for the death of her family, brought to justice. One thing that struck me about this article was that Marinela mentions running into the officer responsible for killing her parents, just as Mario mentions his encounters with his ex-torturers. This ex interrogator came into the bar Marinela was working at and she understandable had to pass him off to one of the other waitresses to serve him (they didn't even kick him out!?). It is so incomprehensible to me that so many examples of this type of situation have occured. The government that allowed criminals to walk free after the dirty war years, and that pardoned their crimes, should go to prison themselves. It is a crime that Marinela had to encounter and potentially SERVE the man who killed her family. Fortunately now (although incredibly late in timing) these dirty criminals are finally getting the punishment they deserve. Marinela, as other people who had family or friends disappeared during the war, expresses her sense of relief and satisfaction that they are finally being put behind bars. The fact that these monsters were able to walk the streets for almost thirty years after the war however is unforgivable.
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