Spanish Human Rights Investigations of Argentine and Chilean Atrocities under Pressure

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Sunday, February 1, 1998

Author:

Bruce Zagaris

Volume:

14

Issue:

2

63-64

Abstract:

A letter from the Spanish attorney general to Spanish legislators requesting the suspension of two Spanish court investigations into the torture and killings of Spanish citizens during the "dirty wars" in Argentina and Chile during the 1970s and 1980s has put the investigations under extreme political pressure... [more]