Argentina

See also: National Reorganization Process, Dirty War, 1976 Argentine coup d'état, and Argentine economic crisis

Jorge Rafael Videla meeting Jimmy Carter in 1977

In Argentina, military forces overthrew the democratically elected President Isabel Perón in the 1976 Argentine coup d'état, starting the military dictatorship of General Jorge Rafael Videla, known as the National Reorganization Process, which was ultimately responsible for 9,000 to 30,000 deaths and disappearances until 1983. Both the coup and the following authoritarian regime was eagerly endorsed and supported by the United States government^[5] with US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger paying several official visits to Argentina during the dictatorship. According to Spanish judge Baltazar Garzón, Kissinger was a witness to the regime's crimes.