Victims of Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ of the late 1970s blast Pope’s ‘deadly’ silence

In early 1977, Estela de la Cuadra’s husband, brother, pregnant sister and brother-in-law disappeared. In the dark period known as Argentina’s “Dirty War” of the late ’70s and early ’80s, activists were routinely kidnapped, tortured and murdered for opposing the ruling military regime. The de la Cuadras appealed…