The Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF, for its Spanish initials) has identified 12 bodies that were found during an excavation at the site where a clandestine detention center known as La Perla operated during the dictatorship in the central province of Córdoba. The bodies belonged to victims of the military regime who were presumably held at La Perla and remained disappeared until now. La Perla was one of the largest clandestine detention, torture and extermination centers of the last military dictatorship. It is estimated that between 2,200 and 2,500 people were held captive there, most of whom remain disappeared. “It has been 50 years since the genocidal coup, and TRUTH is still coming to us,” said an X post by H.I.J.O.S., an organization formed by children of dictatorship victims.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald March 11, 2026 14:30 UTC