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 ...

Argentina had had an abundance of both. Between 1930 and his election in 1983, the country had gone through 24 presidents and 26 successful military coups and several hundred unsuccessful ones.

The infant Mario Bravo was stolen from his mother when she was imprisoned by Argentina’s military junta 38 years ago and given to a family ... tortured and killed or disappeared following the 1976 ...

People across Argentina have marked the anniversary of the 1976 coup that unleashed a wave of repression in which tens of thousands of dissidents "disappeared." Argentinians held a Day of Remembrance ...

"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.

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 ...

The coups will continue until an appropriate ... of maintaining a stable anti-Communist regime. However, the Argentine military has a remarkably flexible definition of stable government.

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 ...

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 ...