Revelations of former U.S. Ambassador Raul Castro over the years at night and lead to explain the plot of how it worked out the military dictatorship, with the complicity of the United States and Argentina's ruling class at that time. Sources
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Washington confirmed the statement made by former U.S. ambassador to Argentina, Raúl Castro made to the agency Associated Press (AP). They were terrible years in which the military were the executive arm of crimes, a whole generation of young men and women, civilian sectors encouraged by businessmen, politicians from right and not a few alleged liberal church that came together to to bless the weapons of the "task forces."
few weeks after the bodies of seven women who had led a movement to free their loved ones, appeared on a beach in southern Argentina, in 1978, the U.S. government would have buried who was guilty of murders, the direct executors and the military. In Washington argue that concealed the information and it is ratified by Ambassador Raul Castro, but the truth is that all Latin American military dictatorships had the approval of that country and the cooperation of the CIA and other security agencies.
The so-called Condor Plan integrated dictatorships Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil, was a U.S. billing plan at the time of the Cold War was in effect when the theory of "low intensity warfare" and the National Security Doctrine, teaching activities in the School of the Americas, where Latin American military colleges and schools, according to the doctrine of "revolutionary war." That mentality was expanded in Santa Fe Papers I and II of the Reaganite ideologues of the Republican Party.
Raul Castro Raul Castro, then U.S. ambassador in Argentina told the agency mentioned that he considered more important to work between racks to make the anti-regime improve the human rights situation in his country, criticizing him publicly. "We were trying to defend human rights, but quietly," said Castro, a former governor of Arizona Hispanic, to commemorate its sinuous performance in Argentina.
Castro statements came after a private institution, the National Security Archives, revealed in previously secret documents that indicated, according to information from the U.S. government that the seven women mentioned above had been captured by military . This situation is analyzed and passed after 1983 in the Trial of the Juntas, but has never sanctioned the action, directly or indirectly, of the American ambassadors, officials of various ranks and military chiefs, special agents who were active in those years. A typical case is that of Henry Kissinger, directly responsible to the ITT with the military coup in Chile that overthrew President Salvador Allende.
Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
The seven women killed were leaders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, representing relatives of thousands of missing, abducted and murdered, buried in mass graves or thrown into the sea.
Twelve leaders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo were kidnapped in December 1977. In a sample of his histrionics and evil, the military junta accused of kidnapping the insurgents. Ambassador Raul Castro learned the truth, as manifest now, through his contacts in that meeting, the women had been abducted by the government that 'the evidence' attributed to the guerrillas were an invention.
A telegram telling
The January 20, 1978, in a telegram sent to the State Department, Castro said: "Our sources agree that the operation was carried out by a branch of the security forces but it is not clear which specific group is and their level of responsibility. "
Referring to the insurgent group, Castro said, "the alleged note of the Montoneros claimed responsibility for the kidnapping has been generally rejected." Castro, who knew some of the ladies would have initially disappeared pressure to the release. But in a telegram sent later, now known by sources outside the former ambassador said further protests "would be fruitless and only if the board would cause reluctance is deliberately withholding information" for fear that would cause "too much damage if revealed '.
The U.S. government
On March 20, 1978, Castro sent a telegram to his superiors in the U.S. government, stating that several corpses "had come to the beach" in southern Argentina "due to strong winds." That included seven women in the group of mothers and among them two French nuns. In the diplomatic cable also indicated that Argentine official confirmed the arrest of seven women "under a broad mandate against terrorists and subversives."
Castro sent a letter of protest to General Jorge Rafael Videla, adding that the French government discouraged further protests against the murder of the nuns, for that caused damage to its trade with Argentina. However, unlike Americans French governments have always claimed so far by the two French nuns abducted and killed by the military.
Former U.S. ambassador refused to tell the families of the disappeared on their findings in a telegram saying that "it would be fruitless and could deviate from the opportunities we have in the current situation."
The diplomat then asked the White House to "avoid any language capable of stigmatizing the government and focus instead on prospects for improved respect for human rights in Argentina."
weekly protests Mothers Mothers began
making weekly protests in front of the Casa Rosada in Buenos Aires, which attracted hundreds of people and international attention. After each protest, the group's leaders met with Castro's ambassador at the embassy, \u200b\u200binforming him of new cases. "I had a direct line with the Board," says Castro, "and conducted inquiries." Castro had informants in the military junta told him that at least two of the leaders attending the weekly meetings were infiltrators sent by the government, but he kept the secret, "I had to proceed cautiously," said Castro now confidently.
A transcript of a report submitted in May 1978 to Secretary of State by another diplomat, Tex Harris, suggests that U.S. government officials chose to ignore complaints about enforcement activities of the Board indicates that U.S. officials chose to ignore complaints about enforcement activities of the Board although "our records," said Harris , "were filled with information on student leaders, psychologists, psychiatrists, members of socialist discussion groups and others who had disappeared." Harris cites statements by a police informant who explained what happened to the "disappeared."
"For those people who are told they will be transferred and should receive an injection before leaving for medical reasons ... People sympathetic to undergo the injection containing curia, a derivative of the poison used by Amazon natives in their blowguns. Obviously, this has the effect of contracting muscles. Then, the aircraft climbs and throw at the mouth of the river, where they are quickly devoured by the fish. "
For the seven women mentioned above, their bodies were found near the coast of Mar del Plata .
Months after the killings, the U.S. government at the behest of the Pentagon authorized the sale of military equipment to the Board for $ 120 million, in addition to providing more than thirty positions Argentine officer training in U.S. military installations and schools.
Castro said in his statement to AP, that the relationship between U.S. military and the Argentine "was very gracious." The military "had income in Washington at the Pentagon."
Of the five informants infiltrated, all male, unknown to four and a fifth "Gustavo Niño" was identified as Navy Lt. Alfredo Astiz.
Argenpresse.info
Buenos Aires, December 16, 2002
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