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Argentina was ruled by a ruthless military junta. When the biggest art theft in the nation’s history occurred. Impressionist paintings by some of France’s most famous artists were stolen. For more than twenty years the paintings ... vanished. The hunt for the paintings covered three countries, and was finally resolved in a courtroom in Paris. Art of the Heist: The Disappeared, 2007
December 2nd 1980 ... Life under the military junta was frequently brutal and occasionally short. ibid.
The thieves were quiet and efficient. They seemed to know what they were after. ibid.
In 2001 there was a glimmer of light in an auction house in London. ibid.
A clandestine arms deal. ibid.
The pictures were returned. ibid.
Many SS men headed for Argentina. The SS: The Mystery of the Odessa
Some of the most infamous Nazi war criminals settled in Argentina after the war. Conspiracy Test: Fugitive Nazis, 2007
A German U-boat pulled into a foreign port. Not in Japan or Spain but in the South American nation of Argentina ... Two months after the war ended Argentina and Peron fell under intense scrutiny when a pair of U-boats appeared off the coast. History’s Conspiracies: The Hunt for Hitler
Some journalists claimed he’d fled to South America. According to some reports the Fuhrer and Eva Braun went into hiding in Argentina, protected by loyal Nazis. Another more far-fetched theory claimed that he went even further south in a U-boat. Hunting Hitler, History 2015-2018
Stalin’s reply was remarkable – he thought Hitler was still alive and living in Spain or Argentina. The British and US governments couldn’t confirm Hitler’s death either. ibid.
Adolf Hitler – leader of the Nazi war machine that came within inches of conquering the world before he died in his bunker in 1945. But new evidence tells another story, of his escape to Argentina. A Fourth Reich in the Sun? 21st Century Wire, Gerrard Williams
Adolf Hitler lived in Argentina with his wife Eva and their children. But these people all of whose testimony is real swear it is true. ibid.
At 3 p.m. on 13th February 1962 tormented, demented and betrayed the most evil man of the twentieth century finally died. We were lied to. ibid.
Up to 100,000 ... Nazis of different forms. ibid.
Martin Bormann arrived in Argentina in 1948. ibid.
Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun and countless other high-ranking Nazis all spirited away to Argentina after the war and it was covered up by our own governments. ibid.
July 18th 1949: off to Argentina: four and a half years since Auschwitz. Hitler’s Henchmen II: Mengele, 1997
Nazis were welcomed in Argentina by dictator Juan Peron. Mengele: The Final Account, 1995
Far from the fugitive existence Mengele enjoyed the good life. ibid.
The lived openly as the Mengele family, listed in the telephone directory. ibid.
Argentina: for half a century a haven for Nazi war criminals. But then in an historic move the government opened its post-war archives to the world. The story led one of America’s most celebrated television news teams to the scoop of a lifetime, and to one of the last remaining high-ranking Nazis still at large: SS Captain Erich Priebke. Nazi Hunters e3: Erich Priebke, Yesterday 2010
Buenos Aires, 1958: the Argentinean capital’s old-world charm and famed night-life had made it a magnet for European ex-patriots. It was also a magnet for Nazi war criminals. Fugitives like Dr Josef Mengele. The Angel of Death. Nazi Hunters e4: Josef Mengele
Germany demanded that Argentina hand him over to face justice. ibid.
23 April 1960 San Fernando Argentina: One of the world’s most notorious Nazi war criminals – Adolf Eichmann – was living incognito with his family near Buenos Aires ... Now the man branded the architect of the Final Solution was in Mossad’s sights. Nazi Hunters e10: Eichmann
The Mossad agents are running a terrible personal risk in going on this Operation. If you were caught in Argentina in 1960 as a known foreign spy you wouldn’t have been executed but you would have been in prison for ages and ages. And of course your mission probably would have been denied back home as is the tradition of many spy stories. Guy Walters
Along with many other Nazi war criminals aided by the Vatican, Priebke escaped to Argentina. Satanic Vatican
Argentina had admitted a huge number of Nazis after World War II. The exact number no-one knows to this day. Sam Donaldson, ABC news anchor
Since Argentina’s 1991 economic crash its streets have been flooded with Paco, a highly addictive inexpensive narcotic derived from cocaine. Deadliest Drugs: Argentina’s New Crack, Manuel Contreras, short film
Jonny was addicted to Paco. He now lives in a squat in La Boca where he tries to look after his friends suffering from addiction. ibid.
Paco is popular in the poorest neighbourhoods. Groups of mothers banded together to fight the spread of Paco. ibid.
Paco addiction kills at least two people a week in La Boca. ibid.
I had watched for many years and seen how a few rich families held much of Argentina’s wealth and power in their hands. So Peron and the government brought in an eight hour working day, sickness pay and fair wages to give poor workers a fair go. Eva Peron
Argentina’s answer to the Loch Ness monster ... A giant lake monster terrorising a resort town in Southern Argentina. The creature is called el Nahuelito. Destination Truth s1e4, Skyfy 2007
Josh travels to South America after documented sightings of a werewolf in Argentina. Destination Truth s1e6
And high-tailed it to Corrientes to investigate documented eye-witness accounts of another creature – el Pombero ... something pygmy-like. ibid.
A news report from Buenos Aires stated that an unknown creature has been spotted multiple times across the Argentine countryside, dubbed the Ucumar. Destination Truth s4e10
Heavy, multi-coloured fur keeps the animal warm in high elevations. ibid.
Well, as Hannah Arendt famously said, there can be a banal aspect to evil. In other words, it doesn’t present always. I mean, often what you're meeting is a very mediocre person. But nonetheless, you can get a sort of frisson of wickedness from them. And the best combination of those, I think, I describe him in the book, is/was General Jorge Rafael Videla of Argentina, who I met in the late 1970s when the death squad war was at its height, and his fellow citizens were disappearing off the street all the time. And he was, in some ways, extremely banal. I describe him as looking like a human toothbrush. He was a sort of starch, lean officer with a silly moustache, and a very stupid look to him, but a very fanatical glint as well. And, if I’d tell you why he’s now under house arrest in Argentina, you might get a sense of the horror I felt as I was asking him questions about all this. He’s in prison in Argentina for selling the children of the rape victims among the private prisoners, who he kept in a personal jail. And I don’t know if I’ve ever met anyone who’s done anything as sort of condescendingly horrible as that. Christopher Hitchens
For all its outwardly easy Latin charm, Buenos Aires was making me feel sick and upset, so I did take that trip to the great plains where the gaucho epics had been written, and I did manage to eat a couple of the famous asados: the Argentine barbecue fiesta (once summarized by Martin Amis’s John Self as ‘a sort of triple mixed grill swaddled in steaks’) with its slavish propitiation of the sizzling gods of cholesterol. Yet even this was spoiled for me: my hosts did their own slaughtering and the smell of drying blood from the abattoir became too much for some reason (I actually went ‘off’ steak for a good few years after this trip). Then from the intrepid Robert Cox of the Buenos Aires Herald I learned another jaunty fascist colloquialism: before the South Atlantic dumping method was adopted, the secret cremation of maimed and tortured bodies at the Navy School had been called an asado. In my youth I was quite often accused, and perhaps not unfairly, of being too politicized and of trying to import politics into all discussions. I would reply that it wasn’t my fault if politics kept on invading the private sphere and, in the case of Argentina at any rate, I think I was right. The miasma of the dictatorship pervaded absolutely everything, not excluding the aperitifs and the main course. Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir