Massera, junta President Jorge Videla and other coup leaders took power at a time when Argentina was torn by leftist guerrilla violence and counterattacks by military forces and death squads.

Thousands of Argentines marched through Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo on Sunday to commemorate another anniversary of the March 24, 1976 coup by the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla ...

This column profiles important historical events which took place during this week, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, 75 years ago ...

As Elena Basso reports from San Rafael in Argentina, the case shows that ... Argentines who were kidnapped by soldiers after the military coup on 24 March 1976. The military junta led by Jorge ...

Some expected the rampage would create chaos justifying a military coup to overturn Lula's election ... Ministry that would make the request to Argentina, they said. Earlier this year, Reuters ...

The infant Mario Bravo was stolen from his mother when she was imprisoned by Argentina’s military junta 38 years ... tortured and killed or disappeared following the 1976 military coup. You can’t buy ...

The Bolivian government on Monday summoned the Argentine ambassador to address the country's claim that the attempted military coup that rattled Bolivia last week was a hoax. Bolivia's official ...

"The Bolivian democracy is in danger. Not because of the military coup, but because, historically, Socialist governments turn into dictatorships," the Argentine presidential office believes.

Miguel Etchecolatz headed police investigations in Buenos Aires province from 1976 to late 1977, when Argentina was ruled by a military junta. Etchecolatz confessed to killing political opponents ...