¿Dónde Están?-Où sont-ils? is a French association (statutes type law 1901) that was established in Paris in 1997, mostly by Uruguayan exiles. Among its main objectives are to raise public awareness about enforced disappearances and other human rights violations committed during the years of state terrorism in Uruguay between 1968 and 1985, and to denounce the impunity of those responsible for those crimes.
This is a memorandum from the US State Department addressed to members and participants of the Working Group/ Cabinet Committee to Combat Terrorism. The State Department reports that the JCR has largely been defeated by the security forces in the Southern Cone.
In this document, Chilean agent Enrique Lautaro Arancibia Clavel (alias 'Luis Felipe Alemparte') writes to his superiors in the DINA. He shares intelligence on the JCR (Revolutionary Coordinating Junta) obtained from Argentine Colonel José Osvaldo Ribeiro ('Rawson') and mentions that Rawson will travel to Santiago to investigate the matter. Rawson has proposed the idea of establishing 'a coordinated intelligence centre among Chile, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay'.
This CIA document reports that the international press has published statements by leaders of the Chilean Movement of the Revolutionary Left (MIR) in exile lamenting the disappearance and presumed arrest by Argentine authorities of MIR leader, Edgardo Enríquez.
