desaparecidos

We must remember the suffering of my people, as we must remember that of the Ethiopians, the Cambodians, the boat people, Palestinians, the Mesquite Indians, the Argentinian "desaparecidos" - the list seems endless.

Elie Wiesel - Nobel Lecture 1986

The former Chilean Dictator Augusto Pinochet was famous for making people disappear - the "desaparecidos". sp?

Axelrod: Obama "thought very long and hard about" about opening up the CIA interrogation memos. Ann Althouse 2009

March for civil war "desaparecidos" in Guatemala: photos

Boing Boing 2007

The decoration is from a sad and lovely website in Argentina, a blog entry dated March 24, 2006. here With this image of so many "desaparecidos" (the lost ones -- the "disappeareds" literally), the blogger notes that 30 years ago on that day, March 24, 1976, the Argentine Armed forces took over the government, promising before God and the saints to defend Western civilization and Christianity.

Never Again, Argentina! 2006

Civil War / Franco regime 'desaparecidos', totals by region:

thinkSPAIN - The leading English Spanish website 2008

During the Spanish Civil War and for a time after it people were taken for a walk, a walk from which they never returned; back in the 1970s and 1980s, when many South American countries had military dictatorships, people went missing and were described in Spanish as desaparecidos.

Disappearance 2010

In Spanish, desaparecidos means missing and nothing more; it is used for people who are lost but not officially declared dead after floods, earthquakes and so on.

Disappearance 2010

During the Spanish Civil War and for a time after it people were taken for a walk, a walk from which they never returned; back in the 1970s and 1980s, when many South American countries had military dictatorships, people went missing and were described in Spanish as desaparecidos.

Disappearance 2010

During the Spanish Civil War and for a time after it people were taken for a walk, a walk from which they never returned; back in the 1970s and 1980s, when many South American countries had military dictatorships, people went missing and were described in Spanish as desaparecidos.

16 posts from March 2010 2010

In Spanish, desaparecidos means missing and nothing more; it is used for people who are lost but not officially declared dead after floods, earthquakes and so on.

16 posts from March 2010 2010