The Buenos Aires Herald
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
The English-language newspaper was credited with standing up to Argentina's military dictatorship during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It published reports of people who'd disappeared when other newspapers were effectively silenced by the authorities. The paper's editor at the time, Robert Cox, has been speaking to Simon Watts for Witness.
Photo: Argentinian soldiers frisking a civilian at a checkpoint in Buenos Aires in 1977. Credit: Ali Burafi/AFP/Getty Images.
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| 1:11.2 | It's been announced that one of the oldest newspapers in Latin America, |
| 1:14.8 | the Buenos Aires Herald, is to close down. The Herald was run by the English-speaking |
| 1:20.0 | community in Argentina and is credited with standing up to the military dictatorship |
| 1:24.8 | which ruled in the 1970s and early 1980s. |
| 1:30.8 | In In In March 1976 the armed forces seized power in Argentina. |
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