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When one thinks of the Cold War dictatorships that scarred Latin America in the 1970s, the imagery of Argentina’s desaparecidosDesaparecidos Full Description: Victims of state terrorism who were secretly abducted, detained, and murdered without legal process or public record. The state denied all knowledge of their whereabouts, trapping families in a permanent state of anguish and uncertainty.Desaparecidos refers to a specific technique of repression where the state erases the existence of its victims. People were snatched from their homes or streets, taken to clandestine detention centers, tortured, and then secretly disposed of (often thrown from aircraft into the ocean). By refusing…