Assignment #9

1. If there were thousands of people disappearing in such a short period of time, how was it that no one found a way to resist the government or stop it? It seems as if there were people being taken off the streets day in and day out, there would have been people or some sort of power that could have helped to stop it?

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000003971186/where-is-my-grandchild.html

2. What is the hardest part about identifying or finding these missing grandchildren? How do they get found in the first place, if they are unaware that they were even kidnapped in the first place? DId people just start checking their dna with the bank that was held from all those who were missing their grandchildren?

https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000003971186/where-is-my-grandchild.html

3. For the amount of people that the government was disappearing, I am wondering if they actually got information that they were looking for. Their whole idea was that left-wing activists were terrorists and communists, and tortured them to get information. But were they actually getting information they wanted? Or is that why they continued to torture and kill people, because they were not getting what they wanted.

https://www.history.com/news/mothers-plaza-de-mayo-disappeared-children-dirty-war-argentina

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