This document summarises an attachment with a list of Uruguayans who were freed, refouled, and allegedly disappeared in Argentina produced by the UNHCR in Buenos Aires.

Amnesty International highlights a report by Brazilian human rights group CLAMOR which exposed that Uruguayan children, Anatole and Victoria Eva Julien Grisonas had been found in Chile. Three years after their disappearance, the children were living with an adoptive family in Valparaiso.

This note from the US Embassy in Paraguay to the Secretary of State in Washington reports on the detention of Argentine citizens Enrique Osvaldo Landi and Ofelia Badie de Landi in Paraguay. Moreover, it is reported that the married couple were tortured by two Argentine security officials assisted by the Paraguayan police and their three-year-old son was disappeared.

This US State Department document reports on the case of the Argentine journalist, Norberto Habbeger who was disappeared in Rio de Janeiro in August 1978. According to a press source, Habbeger's wife believes that he was kidnapped by Argentine police, 'possibly with the help of Brazilian police'.

Report by the Association of Relatives of the Disappeared (AFUDE) on disappeared Uruguayan refugees. In the first part of the report, it mentions that 'since 1974 the Uruguayan government is kidnapping political refugees in Argentina'. The second part of the report shares information regarding a list of disappeared Uruguayan refugees, including those seen in Argentine prisons, those kidnapped in Paraguay, and Uruguayan children disappeared in Argentina.

In this communique, the US Ambassador of Buenos Aires forwards the remarks of a UNHCR official regarding disappeared Uruguayan refugees including the fact that the UNHCR, allegedly, has records of 50 Uruguayans disappeared in Argentina in 1977-1978. Of these 50 Uruguayans, only five reappeared in Argentine jails and the Government of Argentina denied having any record of their detention (except for one case).

Amnesty International reports on numerous abductions and disappearances in Argentina from August to October 1978. The report mentions the illegal forced repatriation, or refoulment, of political exiles in Argentine through the joint effort by the paramilitary security forces of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.

In this document, the US Ambassador to Uruguay informs Washington that the Brazilian journalist Luis Cunha had unveiled the alleged kidnapping of Uruguayan political refugees Universindo Rodriguez and Liliana de Casariego in Brazil. The document highlights that Cunha strongly suspected that the Uruguayans' captors belonged to local Brazilian security forces.

In this interview at the US Embassy in Asuncion, a released political prisoner, Lidia Ester Cabrera de Franco recounts her arrest in Argentina and her detainment at the Investigations Police headquarters and Emboscada prison in Paraguay.

The interview alludes to victims who were disappeared during death flights. When Argentine dictator Videla visited the Paraguayan prison, the victim recalls that several Argentine prisoners were turned over to the Argentine authorities who had travelled in the President's aircraft, never to be seen again.

Este documento es un reporte escrito por la "Secretariat International de Juristes pour l'Amnestie en Uruguay" en París. Menciona dos testimonios de personas recientemente liberadas en la Argentina y actualmente refugiadas en Europa que aportan información sobre las operaciones conjuntas de los militares uruguayos y argentinos contra los refugiados uruguayos en Argentina.