In other news…

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…let’s talk about the news! I had a short assignment for class to look up and summarize an article so it got me to reading some Argentine news sites and newspapers. My host mom presented me with this (en español), which I found the most interesting and pertains to my last post about ESMA. Here is a similar story I found on an English site.

An amendment that would declassify U.S. intelligence documents about the Argentine military dictatorship lost in a vote of 214–194 on Friday, frustrating human rights groups and marking the fourth time since 2008 that such a measure has failed in U.S. Congress.

Republican Rep. Mike Rogers argues that U.S. intelligence is too preoccupied with Al Qaeda operations at the moment and that “The topic of Argentina can wait. It has already waited for 25 years. A few more years won’t make a difference.” Needless to say, these comments infuriated the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, many of whom are approaching old age and “waiting” simply won’t be an option any more. Meanwhile, Maurice Hinchey who presented the bill, argues that these intelligence documents would help immensely in identifying the desparacidos and their children. I just find it so ironic that while the U.S. hunts for Al Qaeda the Argentinians search for answers, both wanting justice served to those guilty of killing thousands of its citizens. Why should one problem dominate the importance of another?  sigh….Ladies and gentlemen, here we have an example of U.S. imperialism at its finest. At least this issue is being brought up on “our” soil again and I hope the Congress continues to push for this information as  Mothers are able to keep esperanza.

While I’m on the topic, I’ll share two more articles pertaining to human rights and the security of Buenos Aires from The Argentine Independent, an English news source that I find to be very good. Both are interesting, I’m running out of time and I can’t go into detail right now on them but I suggest you read!

http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/newsfromargentina/a-work-in-progress-human-rights-in-argentina-/

http://www.argentinaindependent.com/currentaffairs/analysis/fear-and-loathing-in-buenos-aires-/

This is very good, you all should read this.