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There was a military coup d'etat in Argentina in 1976, and forgive me, I'm going to get a little Rachel Maddowie at the top of my show today, if that's all right.

This right-wing military junta would wind up running the country for eight bloody years.

More than 30,000 people were disappeared during Argentina's dirty war, activists, union organizers, journalists, and most of the disappeared were young people.

Men and women in their late teens, 20s, early 30s, students.

Some of the women who were arrested were pregnant because Argentina is an overwhelmingly Catholic country and because the men running the junta were themselves good Catholics. They didn't execute these pregnant women. They held them until they gave birth and then they executed them. And their children, these stolen children,

were given to childless military families to, quote, unquote, adopt and raise. More than 500

Argentinian children were stolen from their parents in this way, and it was only decades later

that many would learn of their true identities and what happened to their actual

mothers and fathers. Revisiting a shameful chapter in another nation's history is not meant

to deflect attention from the shameful chapter or shameful chapters, plural, the dozens and dozens

of them currently being written in our nation in the United States.

And the United States, of course, it must be acknowledged, played a role in Argentina's

dirty war. Henry Kissinger, then the Secretary of State, encouraged the Argentinian

coup leaders to destroy their opponents quickly. All those activist, union organizers,

students, and journalists, all those

pregnant women. And he suggested they destroyed them quickly so the dirty work could all be done

before there was an outcry over human rights abuses. It was impossible to read this story in

the Associated Press this weekend without thinking of Argentina's dirty war and appropriated children. The headline

undersells the horror. Deported parents may lose kids to adoption. We are separating

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