Horacio Verbitsky

Horacio Verbitsky is a leading Argentinean <a href=http://www.cpj.org/awards01/verbitsky.html target=_blank>investigative journalist</a>. He was given an International Press Freedom Award by the Commi

Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the 'dirty war'

Argentina between 1976 and 1983 was wracked by a “dirty war” in which successive military regimes hunted down, tortured and “disappeared” tens of thousands of citizens. The process had begun

By Horacio Verbitsky

/ 27 Jul 2005

Breaking the silence: the Catholic Church in Argentina and the 'dirty war'

The Catholic church’s complicity in torture and murder in Argentina should be no surprise; it had, after all, long precedents in extreme doctrines that came to Argentina (and elsewhere in Latin America).

By Horacio Verbitsky

/ 26 Jul 2005