Let me make an observation Dear Amanda: Of course you are under no obligation to have proper knowledge of the so called "dirty war" as you are not an argentinean and just a turist. Most argentineans don´t really know what happened during those years and just repeat the official speech. So it´s understandeable that you do the same. The "dissapeared" were not only "people that thought differently" but real terrorists. There was a force of 30.000 guerrilla fighters trained in Cuba to overtake a democratic government and impose a dictatorial marxist regime (just as in Cuba). Luckily enough Argentina is not the same as Cuba and the people didn´t want a marxist revolution. The military took the government after 6 years of a chaotic situation where the terrorist commited 22.000 terrorist acts (bombing) and killed 2.000 people. In this situation, the society as a whole claimed for the military intervention. The mother of the disappeared are mothers of ruthless criminales. Period.
hey! hey there! my name is kimi and i'm also going to study abroad in buenos aires! your first entry says you are in belgrano...living there or studying there? i'm studying there! anyway, your blog is great so far! very happy to see that the culture shock didn't overwhelm you...i leave tomorrow and i must admit, i'm really nervous! good luck with the rest of your travels! :-)
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Let me make an observation
Dear Amanda: Of course you are under no obligation to have proper knowledge of the so called "dirty war" as you are not an argentinean and just a turist. Most argentineans don´t really know what happened during those years and just repeat the official speech. So it´s understandeable that you do the same. The "dissapeared" were not only "people that thought differently" but real terrorists. There was a force of 30.000 guerrilla fighters trained in Cuba to overtake a democratic government and impose a dictatorial marxist regime (just as in Cuba). Luckily enough Argentina is not the same as Cuba and the people didn´t want a marxist revolution. The military took the government after 6 years of a chaotic situation where the terrorist commited 22.000 terrorist acts (bombing) and killed 2.000 people. In this situation, the society as a whole claimed for the military intervention. The mother of the disappeared are mothers of ruthless criminales. Period.