In the span of about a decade, roughly 30,000 people in Argentina disappeared at the hands of the government. Called “los desaparecidos,” or “the disappeared,” many of these individuals were brought to the 500-plus clandestine detention centers established to detain and torture those thought to be a threat to the country’s dictatorship.
After spending the start of the spring semester studying this dark moment in Argentine history through film, Bridget Franco’s Latin American Film class traveled to Buenos Aires over spring break to explore how these events and los desaparecidos are remembered a mere 30 years later.