Enrique Rodríguez Larreta was a Uruguayan journalist who was captured in Buenos Aires in July 1976. He had travelled to Buenos Aires to search for one of his children who had disappeared and, in doing so, he was also captured and detained at the Automotores Orletti clandestine torture and detention centre.

Alexei Jaccard Siegler was a Swiss-Chilean and a member of the Chilean Communist Party (Partido Comunista de Chile).

On 13th October 1974, he was captured and tortured by agents from the Chilean Army’s Security Service, which left him with severe physical injuries. On 21st December 1973, just a few months after his release, he went into exile in Switzerland. 

After the Argentine coup d’état on 24th March 1976, repression against the Montoneros political organisation intensified, as its armed guerrilla movement became increasingly fragmented. 

Agustín Goiburú Jiménez was a Paraguayan doctor and political leader of the Movimiento Popular Colorado (Colorado Popular Movement, MOPOCO) and a firm opponent to the dictatorship of Alfredo Stoesser.