Uruguayos que desaparecieron en Argentina y reaparecieron en Uruguay
Este documento contiene un listado de uruguayos que desaperecieron en Argentina en 1976 y reaparecieron en Uruguay.
Este documento contiene un listado de uruguayos que desaperecieron en Argentina en 1976 y reaparecieron en Uruguay.
This document contains a list of names of Uruguayans arrested in Argentina and imprisoned in Uruguay. The document is not signed nor date. Based on the names listed on the document, we have estimated it to be from early 1978.
This document transmits to the Ambassador a list produced by the UNHCR in Buenos Aires regarding Uruguayan refugees in Argentina, including refugees arrested in Argentina in 1976 and later refouled, and refugees disappeared in Argentina between 1976 and 1978.
Amnesty International discusses the news, reported initially by the Brazilian human rights group CLAMOR, that the Uruguayan children, Anatole and Victoria Eva Julien Grisonas had been located in Chile. Three years after their disappearance, the children were living with an adoptive family in Valparaiso. The document notes that, although the Julien children will remain in Chile, Maria Angelica Caceres de Julien (their grandmother) will have full access to them and the rights of the real family to the children have been permanently guaranteed.
This cable 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. The couple were tortured by two Argentine security officials assisted by the Paraguayan police and their three-year-old son was disappeared. The Embassy sources indicate that Uruguayan security forces were not involved in these activities and that the only Uruguayan citizens detained were spouses of some of the Argentine nationals.
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'.
This is a 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.
This telegram from the US Ambassador of Buenos Aires to the Department of State in Washington, which is heavily redacted, discusses UNHCR information regarding disappeared Uruguayan refugees. Of some 80 Uruguayans who had disappeared in Argentina in 1976, about 36 later turned up in Uruguayan jails. Of these 11 were given conditional liberty. The UNHCR has also records of 50 Uruguayans disappeared in Argentina in 1977-1978. Of these 50 Uruguayans, only five reappeared in Argentine jails whilst the whereabouts of the rest remain unknown.
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.