'Is Obama serious about declassifying 'dirty war' docs?'

Leading up to President Barack Obama's historic trip to Argentina this week, his administration dropped a mini-bombshell: The U.S. government would begin declassifying documents related to Argentina's "dirty war," the period between 1976 and 1983 when more than 20,000 citizens—known as "the missing" ("desaparecidos" in Spanish)—were secretly detained and tortured and murdered, their bodies never recovered.











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