Category Archives: Don’t Cry For Argentina

Updates to the Herrera child-stealing case

Posted on December 31, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Marcela Herrera, suspected to be an illegally adopted child of the Dirty War, preparing to submit to DNA testing to help determine her true parentage. Story from Telesur, via Aporrea: The federal police of San Isidro, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, … Continue reading →

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What child is this?

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Ernestina Herrera de Noble, flanked by adopted son Felipe and adopted daughter Marcela. Both adoptees’ natural parentage is now under suspicion.Or should we say, Whose children are these? A tribunal has ordered DNA testing on the adopted children of the … Continue reading →

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How very convenient…

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Why are these mothers still marching? Because justice has not been served…and their children are still missing.Isn’t it funny how many repressors from the dictatorial age of the Argentine junta are getting away with murder–literally? Look who’s going to miss … Continue reading →

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Lugo: Not stupid. Dissociated Press: VERY.

Posted on November 7, 2009 by Sabina Becker

Lugo with one of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. It’s his habit of standing with the victims, not the perpetrators, of fascism that’s gaining this peace-loving padre so much bad press…Remember how, a little over a year ago, … Continue reading →

Posted in Crapagandarati, Don't Cry For Argentina, Fascism Without Swastikas, Newspeak is Nospeak, Paraguay, Uruguay | 1 Comment

What a truly unworthy Nobel peace prize winner looks like

Posted on October 14, 2009 by Sabina Becker

This is an old film clip from 1977, included in a documentary called Nuestros Desaparecidos (Our Disappeared). An Argentine reporter asks Henry Kissinger (Nobel peace prize, 1973) what he thinks of the general leading the Argentine junta:Kissinger’s reply is par … Continue reading →

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Interview with a torturer

Posted on October 13, 2009 by Sabina Becker

An Uruguayan journalist goes face-to-face with one of the three men who tortured him when he was a prisoner during the Dirty War in Argentina:Video in Spanish, with English subtitles, from Al-Jazeera.The torturer’s name is Héctor Julio Simón, nickname El … Continue reading →

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Tu querida presencia, Comandante…

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Sabina Becker

A documentary of the life of Che Guevara. On this, the anniversary of his assassination by the CIA’s thugs in Bolivia, it’s useful to know who he really was, and why the moneyed interests wanted him dead. Contrary to popular … Continue reading →

Posted in All About Evo, Chile Sin Queso, Cuba, Libre (de los Yanquis), Don't Cry For Argentina, Guatemala, Guatebuena, If You REALLY Care, Karma 1, Dogma 0, Socialism is Good for Capitalism! | 2 Comments

An important reminder of why the IMF is not to be trusted. ANYWHERE.

Posted on October 8, 2009 by Sabina Becker

The Take, by Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis, in its entirety. While Argentina’s politicians and public officials go on sucking donkey balls, its ordinary working people are showing us a new way–how to fire the boss (and the IMF) and … Continue reading →

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Even More Music for a Sunday: A farewell with applause

Posted on October 4, 2009 by Sabina Becker

For Mercedes “La Negra” Sosa, who passed away today in Argentina. A survivor so many times over gives thanks to life with her awe-inspiring contralto voice, which spoke out against military dictatorship and for freedom.A voice that survives……wherever she came … Continue reading →

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Festive Left Friday Blogging: Say “queso”!

Posted on September 4, 2009 by Sabina Becker

What do you do in a resort town like Bariloche, when you’re not busy at Unasur conferences? You bring a camera……and get your friends to ham it up, as Chavecito did with his pals, Lugo and Lula.

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