The archaeological remains of "La escuelita" clandestine detention and torture center used by the army to interrogate and kill left-wing militants in Bahia Blanca.
Bahia Blanca, Argentina, February 2012.
An airplane used by the Argentine military to drop left-wing militants alive to the La Plata river and Atlantic ocean during the military dictatorship is now used as an advertising object for a construction materials store in the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
Esteban Echeverria, Argentina, September 2011.
The la plata river, between Argentina and Uruguay were an unknown number of people were trown alive from airplanes by the Argentine military during the dictatorship from 1976-1983.
La Plata River, October 2012.
Maria Santucho, the daughter of the Argentine militant Oscar Santucho, who was disappeard in 1976 in Argentina by the military.
Ms Santucho portrayed in the Malecon in Havana, was herself arrested and forced into exile in 1976. She lives in Cuba since then.
Havana, Cuba, December 2006.
The torture room of "Olimpo" a former clandestine detention and torture center used by the federal police and military to interrogate and kill left-wing militants in Buenos Aires, Argentina during the military dictatorship 1975-1983.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, November 2007.
Taty Almeida, a member of the mothers of the May Square movement in Argentina. Ms Almeida had her son Alejandro Almeida arrested and disappeard by the Argentine military in 1975.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, August 2006.
Orletti automotors a former concentration camp for foreigners in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Orletti automotors was the headquarters of Operation Condor in Argentina, where dozens of foreign political prisoners where tortured and interrogated by both Argentine military and foreign military forces.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 2012.
An aerial view from the amazon jungle in the Araguaia region between the states of Para and Tocantins in Brazil. This region in the late 1960's and early 70's was taken by a communist guerrilla movement which was later exterminated by the Brazilian army during the military dictatorship.
Para, Brazil, October 2012.
Josias "Jonas" Gonçalves a former guerilla fighter in the early 1970's, photographed in Serra das Andorinhas where he fought against the Brazilian army, Araguaia region.
Serra das Andorinhas, Para, Brazil, August 2011.
One of the cell areas in Punta de Rieles jail in Montevideo, Uruguay. This prison was done for women political prisoners during the Uruguayan dictatorship in the early 1970's.
After democracy was reinstated in the country, the jail closed and later reopened as a prison for common prisoners.
Montevideo, Uruguay, February 2012.
Anahit Aharonian, looking from the window of her former cell in the Punta de Rieles prison in Montevideo, Uruguay.
Ms Aharonian is a descendant of survivors of the Armenian genocide and was born in Uruguay. She became involved with politics in her teenage years and embraced the Tupamaro movement. She was arrested by the military during the early days of the Uruguayan dictatorship, having spent 12 years in jail.
Montevideo, Uruguay, February 2012.
Chile national stadium. This stadium was used during the military coup of September 1973 as a concentration camp for the political opposition, and were interrogation, torture and death were commonly used.
Santiago, Chile, November 2008.
Veronica de Negri, a Chilean survivor of the military dictatorship, who after being released from jail seeked exile in the United States of America were she still lives.
Ms de Negri, suffered several kinds of torture during interrogation, including being rapped by both soldiers and animals.
Washington D.C. USA, July 2008.
The entrance of Londres 38, a former clandestine detention centre in downtown Santiago de Chile. The few survivors from this center, recognized the location by describing the little they could see when entering the house, which was black and white tilled floors.
Santiago, Chile, November 2008.
Orletti automotors a former concentration camp for foreigners in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Orletti automotors was the headquarters of Operation Condor in Argentina, where dozens of foreign political prisoners where tortured and interrogated by both Argentine military and foreign military forces.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 2012.
Leonardo Benito Peña, an Argentina-Bolivian saw his parents being taken by the Argentine military while he was a baby. He was then rescued by his Bolivian family and taken to La Paz were he currently lives. His parents were never found again and are now being searched as "desaparecidos" or disappeared.
La Paz, Bolivia, November 2012.
A detail of a bathroom of Londres 38, a former clandestine detention and torture center during the miitary dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in downtown Santiago de Chile.
Santiago, Chile, November 2008.
The stairs heading to the torture rooms in Orletti automotors a former concentration camp for foreigners in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Orletti automotors was the headquarters of Operation Condor in Argentina, where dozens of foreign political prisoners where tortured and interrogated by both Argentine military and foreign military forces.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 2012.
Families of political disappeared people in Calama, Chile near the mass graves where 26 political prisoners have been buried by the Chilean military.
After the September 11, 1973 military coup organized by Augusto Pinochet, the Chilean military formed a special task force known as Caravan of death, that swept the north of the country, picking up political prisoners to interrogate and torture them, and executing most of them, buring them in remote locations and never letting the families know what has happened to them.
Calama, Chile, February 2012.
The Atacama desert in northern Chile. In 1973 after the coup headed by Augusto Pinochet, what is known as "Caravan of death" swept Chile, arresting, torturing and killing hundreds of citizens and burying them in several unmarked graves.
The caravan ended its "tour" in the Atacama, where many still lay dead in mass graves that were never found.
Atacama, Chile, March 2012.
Detail of the former military headquarters in Marabá, where pro-guerilla fighters and farmers where arrested and tortured.
Maraba, Para, August 2011.
Lauro Santos a Brazilian farmer who lost his arm when he grabbed an army grenade by mistake during the guerilla times in the early 1970s, killing instantly his brother. Here photographed in his home in Sao Joao do Araguaia.
Araguaia region, Para, August 2011.
Pastor Coronel office in in the headquarters of Departamento de Investigaciones (Paraguayan political police) Asuncion, Paraguay. Mr Coronel, was the chief of the Paraguayan political police, and reports of torture happened in this room during the military dictatorship headed by Alfredo Stroessner.
Asuncion, Paraguay, November 2012.
Celsa Ramirez, a former paraguayan political prisoner and a member of the Paraguayan Communist Party, playing the harp near her house in Ita, Paraguay.
Ms. Ramirez played the harp since she was a child, but during her years living underground as a member of the communist party she couldn't play for safety reasons. Only recently Ms. Ramirez came out of the traumatic experience during the underground years and the years she spent in jail, and started to play again.
Ita, Paraguay, November 2012.
A view of what used to be the cells of the Emboscada concentration camp in Paraguay. This camp was built for detention of political prisoners in Paraguay during Alfredo Stroessner's military dictatorship. Today the place is a high-security prison and the former cells are used for workshops and as a school for the inmates.
Emboscada, Paraguay, November 2012.
The funeral of Horacio Bau a left-wing montonero militant from Trelew in the argentine Patagonia who disappeared in La Plata, Argentina in November 1977. His remains were found buried in a cemetery in the city of La Plata as a "no name" in early 2007 and the burial ceremony took place in Trelew in November 2007.
Trelew, Argentina, November 2007.
Marco Aurelio Guimaraes (L) a forensic pathologist carries the remains of what appears to be a former Brazilian araguaia guerrilla fighter while crossing the araguaia river by boat with his team back to Xambioa. Guerrilla fighters were captured, tortured and executed in the Amazon jungle by the Brazilian Armed forces during the military dictatorship in Brazil.
Araguaia river, Brazil, October 2012.
One of the storage rooms of the EAAF (Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team in spanish), filed with boxes of recovered remains of political disappeared people.
This remains are in storage to be identified and only when with a very strong evidence of identification is returned to the families of the disappeared.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 2012.
socks found inside a mass grave being studied in the EAAF (Argentine team of forensic anthropologists) lab in Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2013
underwear found inside a mass grave being studied in the EAAF (Argentine team of forensic anthropologists) lab in Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, June 2013
The remains of two bodies of political disappeared lay in the lab of the EAAF (Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team in spanish), in Buenos Aires to be studied and to try to match an identification.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, January 2012.
Mirta Clara, an former argentine political prisoner. Ms Clara was arrested with her husband in November 1975 for being part of the montoneros political group.
While in costody she was tortured while pregnant of her second son who was born in captivity.
Her husband was executed in what is known as the Margarita Belen massacre and she spent 8 years in jail, being released only with close to the first democratic elections in 1983.
Today she lives and works as a human rights advocate and psychologist in Buenos Aires.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, February 2012.
Friends and families of the Argentinian military men that are currently being trialed for human rights abuses, protest in favor of their release on October 5th 2012, the day marking the fallen soldiers combating the "subversive" movements.
Buenos Aires, Argentina, October 2012.
Colonel Hugo Delme (white shirt) being transported from jail to the court house in Bahia Blanca by prision guards.
Mr. Delme is a retired army colonel accused of being involved in crimes against humanity by torturing and disappearing left-wing militants during the last Argentine dictatorship 1976-1983. He was convicted to life in jail in October 2012.
Bahia Blanca, Argentina, February 2012.
Heavy security measures at Campo de Mayo concentration camp trial, where the former Argentine President Reynaldo Bignone was sentenced along with other former military men to 25 years in jail for crimes against humanity in April 2010.
Florida, Argentina, April 2010.
Families and friends of the disappeared during the Campo de Mayo concentration camp trial, where the former president Reynaldo Bignone was sentenced to 25 years in jail for crimes against humanity.
Florida, Argentina, April 2010.
From left to right Raúl Guglielminetti, Eugenio Pereyra Apestegui and Julio Simón accused of human rights abuses, sit on the ABO (atletico-banco-olimpo) trial, against former military men, accused of human rights violations during the military dictatorship in Argentina.
In 2010 Mr. Guglielminetti was sentenced to 25 years in jail, and Mr. Apestegui and Mr. Simón were both sentenced to life in jail for crimes they committed during the military dictatorship in Argentina.
Buenos Aires, December 2009.
Former military men, hide their faces to the photographer during a session of their trial in which they are being accused by the Argentine state of crimes against the Humanity in the last dictatorship from 1976-1983.
Bahia Blanca, Argentina, February 2012.