August 2016
President Obama announced during his March 2016 visit to Argentina that the United States would embark on a comprehensive effort to identify additional records related to human rights abuses committed under Argentina’s dictatorship.
On August 4th, Secretary Kerry delivered an initial set of newly declassified records to President Macri. Totaling approximately 1,000 pages, these records are primarily from the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library, Ronald W. Reagan Presidential Library, and George H.W. Bush Presidential Library. Today, these records have been made available to the public at https://icontherecord.tumblr.com.
The declassification project represents an historic effort by U.S. Government agencies and departments to search, identify, review for public access, and provide records that shed light on human rights abuses in Argentina between 1975 and 1984. In 2002, the United States declassified over 4,000 State Department cables and other documents from the period of the Argentine military dictatorship.
These records have helped Argentina hold human rights abusers accountable, for example, by supporting Argentine criminal investigations involving human rights violations under the dictatorship.https://icontherecord.tumblr.com/ Read the full text.
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