This Department of State Memorandum informs of an interview held at the US Embassy in Asuncion, with a released political prisoner, Lidia Ester Cabrera de Franco, who recounts her arrest in Argentina in mid-January 1977 and her later imprisonment at the Investigations Police headquarters and Emboscada prison in Paraguay.

Este documento es un reporte escrito por el "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.

In this document addressed to the US Secretary of State in Washington, the US Ambassador to Argentina flags the arrest and potential refoulment of 21 Uruguayan refugees who had been residing in Argentina. This issue was brought to the attention of Embassy staff in Buenos Aires by UNHCR officials.

This document contains a long telegram from the US Embassy in Buenos Aires to the State Department. Amongst other things, UNHCR officials informed the US Embassy that more than 20 Uruguayan refugees were allegedly being held in an abandoned police facility in Quilmes (Argentina). The UNHCR source also said that interrogations were being conducted by people with "Uruguayan accents."

In this message addressed to the US Embassy in Rome, the US Embassy in Uruguay reports that parliamentarian Jaime Feliciano Dri Lodi has been arrested in Montevideo during a round-up of Argentine Montoneros operating clandestinely in Uruguay carried out by local security forces. The document mentions that the operations targeting Montoneros had received some local media coverage.

This document addressed to the US Secretary of State from the US Ambassador to Argentina mentions the visit of the UN High Commissioner for Refugee's (UNHCR), Kevin Lyonette, to Argentina. Amongst other things, Lyonette expressed concern regarding the potential arrest and refoulment of up to 25 Uruguayans living in Buenos Aires between December 1977 and January 1978. 

The US Embassy in Buenos Aires briefs the State Department in Washington on reports from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNCHR) regarding a list of Uruguayan nationals who were apprehended by Argentine security forces in December 1977.

This telegram from the US State Department reports that the UNHCR office in Buenos Aires (Argentina) has been raided. The event may have been intended as a warning following the critical statements made by former Uruguayan senator Enrique Erro in Geneva about his detention in Argentina. The document claims that the UNHCR has 50 mandated refugees currently detained in Argentina. 

This document records a conversation with the Regional Representative of the UNHCR, Robert Muller, following his 14-month-long visit to Argentina. Muller claims that, of the 14,000 refugees mandated by the UNHCR, around 2,000 have been resettled outside Argentina, whilst another 2,000 have left on their own. The report highlights that UNHCR relations with government officials have improved owing to a certain level of cooperation to remove refugees out of the country.

This telegram from the US Embassy in Buenos Aires to the State Department reports on the situation of Argentine refugees in Brazil. More than 1,000 Argentine citizens are seeking asylum in Brazil and many of them apparently fled Argentina after being detained for interrogation and being subsequently released. Whilst some countries, like Bolivia, are apparently cooperating with Argentine authorities in returning Argentine suspects, Brazil has not yet repatriated any Argentine asylum seekers back to Argentina.