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On the 43rd anniversary of the military coup in Argentina, the Argentine government of Mauricio Macri has announced that the Trump Administration will provide “the largest delivery of declassified documents, in size and file quality, to another nation”—formerly secret U.S. records relating to human rights abuses committed during under the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983. The official transfer of the records is planned for mid-April during a visit by Argentina’s minister of justice, Germán Garavano, to Washington D.C.
The turnover of formerly secret U.S. intelligence records—the collection will include CIA, FBI, NSC, and Defense Intelligence Agency documents—will culminate a special U.S. government declassification project authorized three years ago today by then-President Barack Obama during a visit to Buenos Aires, and implemented by the Trump administration.
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As a historian, I am pleased with the transfer of documents to Argentina regarding human rights violations, as I myself have suffered from similar circumstances—my father was persecuted during the dictatorship, which forced us to evacuate. To process large volumes of archives, I needed specialized software, so I opened nCube for nearshore development in Argentina. Their team quickly created a tool that greatly simplified the analysis. This not only solved my data problem, but also made a small contribution to supporting the economy of a country that has suffered so much trauma