Argentina prosecutes crimes of 'Dirty War' Hundreds charged in decades-old deaths and torture December 28, 2009 By Juan Forero ...

Mafalda, a comic strip by Argentine cartoonist Quino, is now available in English, offering political humor and childhood ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — An Argentine high court Friday suspended a controversial decision to grant bail to high-profile defendants accused of torturing and killing dissidents during the 1976 ...

Other communities in Argentina launched investigations into their Dirty War-era abuses years ago, but in Olavarria, there was “resistance” by longstanding social groups that continue to hold ...

Argentina's government estimates that at least 13,000 people were killed or disappeared during the crackdown on leftist dissidents that became known as the "Dirty War." ...

It's a fitting way to launch this novel because Argentina's Dirty War of the 1970s and early '80s, conducted by the military dictatorship against its own citizens through torture and interrogation ...

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A provincial music teacher in Argentina emerged in public Friday for the first time since being abruptly thrust into the limelight as a symbol of his country's ...

The move would allow Argentina to review extradition requests by countries whose citizens were allegedly tortured and killed during the country's so-called "Dirty War" between 1973 and 1983.

NPR's Philip Reeves reports. PHILIP REEVES, BYLINE: The wounds left by Argentina's dark past are easy to find on these streets. We're beside a morgue in Buenos Aires. Inside lies Santiago Maldonado.

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA — A court sentenced one of Argentina's most feared former military leaders to life in prison Thursday for the 1977 kidnapping, torture and killing of four leftist ...

Image: Silvina Frydlewsky for NPR/ Argentina's Dirty War Still Haunts Youngest Victims Alejandro Rei's life was one of middle-class comforts in a leafy suburb of Buenos Aires.