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Using an unprecedented human rights trial as its lens,
The Disappeared tells the extraordinary saga of Argentina’s attempt to prosecute its aging Dirty Warriors a generation after the collapse of its last military regime.
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
One: A Beginning of Sorts
Two: The Argentine Enigma
Three: The Prosecution's Case
Four: Opening Silence
Five: Trials Before the Trial
Six: The Brutality of the ESMA
Seven: Rodolfo Walsh
Eight: The Santa Cruz Raid
Nine: Between Memory, Truth and Justice
Ten: The Jesuits
Eleven: Closing Arguments and Verdict
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Sam Ferguson is an attorney in Berkeley, California and the principal of Ferguson Law PC. He previously served as a law clerk to the Honorable Judge William Fletcher on the Ninth Circuit Federal Court of Appeals. He was a visiting fellow at Yale Law School’s Orville H. Schell Jr. Center for International Human Rights, as well as a Fulbright fellow in Argentina. His articles on Argentina’s Dirty War have appeared in The New Republic, the Christian Science Monitor, and the Boston Review.
