‘You couldn’t trust anyone’: documenting Argentina’s military dictatorship – photo essay
After recording the brutality of the Videla regime, José Luis Ledesma fled to Italy. He discusses the dictatorship, the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Milei and being Maradona’s personal photographerShortly after 10am on 14 September 1980, a small turboprop aircraft en route from Buenos Aires to the Argentinian city of Rosario crashed into the Rio de la Plata, killing both pilots and three journalists from the newspaper Crónica who were on the way to cover a football match.The authorities logged the crash as an accident, even though the pilots had raised no alarms to suggest there was a problem with the plane. Many were not convinced. This was Argentina in the middle of a brutal crackdown on opponents of the then military dictator, Jorge Rafael Videla – who came to power in a coup, 49th anniversary of which is on 24 March. Continue reading...
After recording the brutality of the Videla regime, José Luis Ledesma fled to Italy. He discusses the dictatorship, the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Milei and being Maradona’s personal photographer
Shortly after 10am on 14 September 1980, a small turboprop aircraft en route from Buenos Aires to the Argentinian city of Rosario crashed into the Rio de la Plata, killing both pilots and three journalists from the newspaper Crónica who were on the way to cover a football match.
The authorities logged the crash as an accident, even though the pilots had raised no alarms to suggest there was a problem with the plane. Many were not convinced. This was Argentina in the middle of a brutal crackdown on opponents of the then military dictator, Jorge Rafael Videla – who came to power in a coup, 49th anniversary of which is on 24 March. Continue reading...
