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Title: Anti Argentine Military Dictatorship Poster In Buenos Aires
Date: 1985-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: An Argentine woman points to a poster with faces of the former military dictatorship, Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 1985. The poster says, "Because we are life, there is judgement to death." Over 30,000 people were disappeared by the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
Subject: Justice; Memory; Human Rights; Cold War
Country: Argentina
Local Identifier: argentina_ct_0007_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: Argentine President Raul Alfonsin In Buenos Aires
Date: 1985-04-24
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Argentine President Raul Alfonsin (1927-2009) speaks with political and economic leaders at a meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 24, 1985. Winner of the 1983 election, President Alfonsin reorganized the armed forces, charged former military and political leaders with human rights abuses from the "Dirty War", restructured the foreign debt, introduced fiscal reforms (including a new currency), and approved a treaty to resolve a dispute with Chile over three Beagle Channel islands.
Subject: Justice; Democracy; Dictatorship; Cold War
Country: Argentina
Subject -- Personal Name: Raul Alfonsin
Local Identifier: argentina_ct_0019_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: Buenos Aires Newspaper Kiosk
Date: 1985-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Argentine President Raul Alfonsin (1927-2009) stands with political and economic leaders at a meeting in Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 1985. Winner of the 1983 election, President Alfonsin reorganized the armed forces, charged former military and political leaders with human rights abuses, restructured the foreign debt, introduced fiscal reforms (including a new currency), and approved a treaty to resolve a dispute with Chile over three Beagle Channel islands.
Subject: Justice; Memory; Media; Dictatorship
Country: Argentina
Subject -- Personal Name: Raul Alfonsin
Local Identifier: argentina_ct_0018_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: Buenos Aires Newspaper Kiosk
Date: 1985-04-24
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Pedestrians read the headlines of daily newspapers at a news kiosk in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 24, 1985. The lower newspaper headlines announces that the political debate about denunciations of the military dictatorship continues by Argentine President Raul Alfonsin. Over 30,000 civilians were known to have been killed, tortured or forcibly disappeared during the county's "Dirty War".
Subject: Justice; Media; Memory; Dictatorship
Country: Argentina
Local Identifier: argentina_ct_0014_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: Buenos Aires Wall Of Graffiti Against The Military Dictatorship
Date: 1985-04-28
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A pedestrian walks past a graffiti painted wall in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 28, 1985. The graffiti shows names of military officers accused of human rights abuses and of civilians that went missing under the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. Over 30,000 civilians were known to have been killed, tortured or forcibly disappeared during the county's "Dirty War".
Subject: Justice; Media; Memory; Dictatorship
Country: Argentina
Local Identifier: argentina_ct_0017_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: Buenos Aires Wall Of Graffiti Against The Military Dictatorship
Date: 1985-04-28
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A pedestrian walks past a graffiti painted wall in downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina, April 28, 1985. The graffiti shows names of military officers accused of human rights abuses and of 30,000 civilians that went missing or disappeared under the military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
Subject: Justice; Media; Memory; Dictatorship
Country: Argentina
Local Identifier: argentina_ct_0015_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: Commuters Ride The Train In Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 1985-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Morning commuters ride the train into the capital, Buenos Aires, Argentina on May 1985. Following the 1976 military coup, Argentina was battered by a military dictatorship with over 30,000 people being jailed, tortured and disappeared until new elections in 1983.
Subject: Cold War; Economy; Justice; Memory
Country: Argentina
Local Identifier: argentina_ct_0021_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova Attends A Military Ceremony In San Salvador
Date: 1983-09-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Minister of Defense General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova salutes during a military ceremony in San Salvador, El Salvador, September 1, 1983. Vides Casanova was head of the Salvadoran National Guard between 1979 and 1983 and served as Minister of Defense from 1983 to 1989. After a 15-year legal battle, he was found guilty in the United States by his command responsibility over Salvadoran security forces for acts of torture and extrajudicial killings, including the brutal slaying of four U.S. nuns in 1980. On April 8, 2015, U.S. immigration officials deported Vides Casanova to El Salvador from the United States, where he had resided as a legal permanent resident since 1989.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; United States foreign policy; Military; Military ceremonies; Deportation; Trials; Impunity; Military aid; Justice; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Country: El Salvador
Subject -- Personal Name: Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0207_web.tif
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96674
Rights statement: Copyright 1983 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: Hebe de Bonafini In Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 1985-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Hebe de Bonafini, center, addresses a crowd during a weekly demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina in May 1985. Activist de Bonafini was the founder of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organization of Argentine mothers whose sons disappeared during the Argentine military dictatorship.
Subject: Human Rights; Repression; Demonstration; Justice; Disappeared
Country: Argentina
Subject -- Personal Name: Hebe de Bonafini
Local Identifier: argentina_nb_0014_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: Hebe de Bonafini In Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 1985-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Hebe de Bonafini, center left, is interviewed by a journalist during a weekly demonstration in Buenos Aires, Argentina in May 1985. Activist de Bonafini was the founder of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organization of Argentine mothers whose sons disappeared during the Argentine military dictatorship.
Subject: Human Rights; Repression; Demonstration; Justice; Disappeared
Country: Argentina
Subject -- Personal Name: Hebe de Bonafini
Local Identifier: argentina_nb_0013_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: House Of Nazi War Criminal Josef Mengele In Brazil
Date: 1985-06-06
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Local and foreign journalists observe the former house of Josef Mengele in Embu, Brazil on June 6, 1985. It is believed that notorious Nazi death-camp doctor Josef Mengele's bones were unearthed in a small cemetery in Brazil under a grave marker labeled Wolfgang Gerhard.
Subject: War Crimes; Genocide; World War ll; Nazism; South America; Criminal; Justice; Forensics
Country: Brazil
Local Identifier: brazil_ct_0105_web.tif
Rights statement: Copyright 1985 Robert Nickelsberg

Title: Lawyer Emilio Mignone In Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 1985-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Argentinian lawyer Emilio Mignone (1922-1998), president of the human rights pressure group Center for Legal and Social Studies, or C.E.L.S., stands for a photograph near his office in Buenos Aires, Argentina, May 1985. Mignone along with five other people formed the human rights group after gathering evidence that their children were victims of state terrorism during the military dictatorship, the Dirty War, from 1976-1983. Over 30,000 people were disappeared by the military dictatorship.
Subject: Human Rights; Dirty War; Memory; Disappearance; Dictatorship; Justice
Country: Argentina
Subject -- Personal Name: Emilio Mignone
Local Identifier: argentina_ct_0006_web.tif

Title: Military Torture Center In Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 1985-01-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: The front of the Higher School of Mechanics of the Navy shows the structure originally built as an educational facility of the Argentine Navy in Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 1985. It was used as an illegal, secret detention center during the Dirty War of the military dictatorship, 1976-1983. Over 30,000 civilians were disappeared during the military dictatorship.
Subject: Cold War; Dictatorship; Memory; Justice; Military
Country: Argentina
Local Identifier: argentina_ct_0016_web.tif

Title: Mothers Of The Plaza de Mayo In Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date: 1985-05-01
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: A banner made by the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo shows the faces of civilians who have been disappeared by the military government in Buenos Aires, Argentina in May 1985. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo is an organization of Argentine mothers whose sons disappeared during the Argentine military dictatorship.
Subject: Human Rights; Repression; Demonstration; Justice; Disappeared
Country: Argentina
Subject -- Personal Name: Hebe de Bonafini
Local Identifier: argentina_nb_0015_web.tif

Title: Remains Of Nazi War Criminal Josef Mengele Found Near Sao Paulo, Brazil
Date: 1985-06-13
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Gitta Stammer (C) who sheltered Nazi war criminal Dr. Joseph Mengele being interviewed by the press about Mengele's supposed death in Sao Paolo, Brazil, June 13, 1985. Mengele experimented on concentration camp prisoners and sent thousands to their deaths. He fled to South America following the end of World War ll.
Subject: War Crimes; Genocide; World War ll; Nazism; South America; Criminal; Justice; Forensics
Country: Brazil
Local Identifier: brazil_ct_0089_web.tif

Title: Remains Of Nazi War Criminal Josef Mengele Found Near Sao Paulo, Brazil
Date: 1985-06-13
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Gitta Stammer (C) who sheltered Nazi war criminal Dr. Joseph Mengele being interviewed by press about Mengele's supposed death in Sao Paolo, Brazil, June 13, 1985. Mengele experimented on concentration camp prisoners and sent thousands to their deaths. He fled to South America following the end of World War ll.
Subject: War Crimes; Genocide; World War ll; Nazism; South America; Criminal; Justice; Forensics
Country: Brazil
Local Identifier: brazil_ct_0090_web.tif

Title: Salvadoran Ex-General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova Loses Appeal And Is Deported Back to El Salvador
Date: 2000-10-19
Creator: Nickelsberg, Robert
Description: Salvadoran General Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova walks to the Federal Courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida, USA, October 19, 2000. Vides Casanova was head of the Salvadoran National Guard between 1979 and 1983. After a 15-year legal battle, he was found guilty in the United States by his command responsibility over Salvadoran security forces for acts of torture and extrajudicial killings, including the brutal slaying of four U.S. nuns in 1980. On April 8, 2015, U.S. immigration officials deported Vides Casanova to El Salvador from the United States, where he had resided as a legal permanent resident since 1989.
Subject: Central America; El Salvador; Civil war; United States foreign policy; Military; Deportation; Trials; Impunity; Human rights violations; Justice; Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Country: United States
Subject -- Personal Name: Carlos Eugenio Vides Casanova
Local Identifier: elsalvador_ct_0252_web.tif
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/auislandora:96719