LATIN AMERICA WEEKLY REVIEW 22 DECEMBER 1977[SANITIZED] - 1977/12/22

• Document Type: SPECIALCOLLECTION
• Collection: Argentina Declassification Project - The "Dirty War" (1976-83)
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 03016888
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• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 32
• Document Creation Date: April 3, 2019
• Document Release Date: April 12, 2019
• Publication Date: December 22, 1977

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LATIN AMERICA WEEKLY REVIEW
22 December 1977
CONTENTS
Human Rights Developments 15
There will be no Latin American Weekly Review next week.
This publication is prepared for regional specialists in the Washington community by
the Latin America Division, Office of Regional and Political Analysis, with occa-
sional contributions from other offices within the National Foreign Assessment
Center and from other agencies within the Intelligence Community. Comments and
queries are welcome. They should be directed to the authors of the individual
articles.
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Human Rights Developments
Several Latin American countries have been discus-
sing the traditional holiday season amnesty for internees,
but only Honduras has announced that a large number of
prisoners will be released.
Argentine authorities appear to have made a major
blunder in handling the recent disappearance of 13 human
rights demonstrators from the group known as the "Mad
Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo." The government has denied
that it is responsible and has blamed the kidnaping on
the Montonero terrorists. The Montonero involvement has
been largely discredited, however, by the fact that the
demonstrators were viewed as being opposed to the govern-
ment and inadvertent allies of the antigovernment forces.
In addition, the scope of the abduction operation and the
number of witnesses indicate it was not a terrorist act.
Navy Secretary General Admiral Fracassi, has given
the US Ambassador in Buenos Aires some insight into the
government's deliberations over human rights cases.
Fracassi said that the Foreign Ministry has passed to
the armed forces a list of 15 cases believed to be of
interest to the US, with a view to determining what
ameliorative action could be taken on political grounds.
Although there is disagreement within the armed forces
over what should be done, it is possible that amnesty
could be granted in several of the cases, including that
of Jacobo Timerman, the editor of La Opinion.
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