The Dirtiest War

To those of us that are convinced that very little happens in this hemisphere without the U.S. being involved, one way or another, it comes as no surprise that the Americans knew all along about the theft of babies from the so-called "subversives" by the Argentinean military during the "dirty war" thirty-some years ago. After all this time, it is only now that the American government acknowledges, through declassified documents, that, at the highest level at the State Department, it was well aware of what was going on. But, as in so many other instances, it chose to look the other way, simply because the victims were worse than expendable; they were "communists", "leftists", "socialists", "subversives" or "terrorists", unworthy of any protection. So, the U.S. Government did what it usually does: it supported the right-wing military junta and kept quiet about the theft of babies, to be sold or given to pro-government families, to raise as their own.

And this is the same U.S. Government that is constantly denouncing Cuba, China or Venezuela for their human rights' transgressions. Hypocrites!