50 years after Argentina’s bloody coup, families still search for and bury the disappeared
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Ana Ramos cries as she holds the remains of her brother Jose Eduardo Ramos, who along with his wife Alicia Dora Cerrota was kidnapped and disappeared by the Argentine dictatorship in 1976, at the cemetery for burial in Tafi Viejo, Thursday, March 5, 2026.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)Forensic anthropologist Mariella Fumagalli, left, and Gabriela Ghidini, examine the bones of murdered and missing persons from the military dictatorship era, in the lab of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Tuesday, March 3, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)Former Army Lance Corporal and exCounter-Subversion Marksmen Unit Chief Juan Manuel Giraud lights a cigarette in his apartment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 13, 2026, as he serves a life sentence under house arrest after a 2022 conviction for the killing of members of a guerrilla group during a 1976 military operation. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)FILE - Argentina's army troops patrol in Buenos Aires, Argentina, March 24, 1976, after a military coup overthrew President Mara Estela Martnez de Peron. (AP Photo/Eduardo Di Baia, File)A visitor walks in the "capucha" area, Spanish for hood, where detainees were hooded and tortured at ESMA, an illegal detention center under the military dictatorship that is now the Museum of Space for Memory and the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Wednesday, March 18, 2026. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Ana Ramos cries as she holds the remains of her brother Jose Eduardo Ramos, who along with his wife Alicia Dora Cerrota was kidnapped and disappeared by the Argentine dictatorship in 1976, at the cemetery for burial in Tafi Viejo, Thursday, March 5, 2026.(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)