Destino final
Subtitle: [Argentina's death flights during the Dirty War]
By: photographs/fotografía: Giancarlo Ceraudo ; texts in order of appearance/textos en orden de aparición: Baltasar Garzón, Miriam Lewin, Enrique Piñeyro, Carlos "Maco" Somigliana, Taty Almeida, Horacio Verbitsky
Contributors: Garzón, Baltasar; Lewin, Miriam, 1957-; Piñeyro, Enrique; Somigliana, Carlos; Almeida, Taty; Verbitsky, Horacio
Publisher: Schilt Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Amsterdam
Language: eng; spa
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9789053308646
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: State-sponsored terrorism; Disappeared persons; History; Escuela de Mecánica de la Armada Argentina
Description: Destino Final is the Spanish term for "final destination," the final arrival place of any plane trip. For at least 5,000 people in opposition to the Argentine military dictatorship, this term acquired an atrocious meaning: drugged and loaded on military planes, infamously known as "death flights," they are thrown, still alive, in the final part of the Rio de la Plata, just before it reaches the Atlantic Ocean, their final, definitive destination. From 1976 until 1983, a military dictatorship governed Argentina. During the dictatorship, the military waged a war against "subversion," known in the international press as the so-called Guerra Sucia, the Dirty War, and attempted to purge the country of all individuals they considered to be "subversives." An estimated 30,000 people died at the hands of the military, which executed a systematic plan to exterminate subversives in concentration camps. 4,000 detainees, imprisoned in these centres, were killed. Just a few of their bodies were recovered. Their families are still looking for their remains and are seeking punishment for the guilty. Hundreds of grandmothers await the identification of their grandchildren born in captivity and robbed by the military.
Notes: Text in English and Spanish, translated from the Spanish.