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HAROLDO PEDRO CONTI

News Organization: CRISIS

Died 1976

Location: ARGENTINA

Bio:

Disappeared May 5 at age 47 after being detained in Buenos Aires. An award-winning reporter for his magazine, the details and circumstances of his death are unknown. During the military regime of 1976 to 1983, thousands of Argentines, including journalists, were imprisoned, tortured and killed without trial. Many have never been found; they are called “the disappeared ones.”