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   Claudia found us lodging in a swank hotel owned by a cousin of hers. Dressed in beautiful clothes and ready for a night out, we paused to look over the city from our balcony. But Claudia had more tears to shed. “My aunt fled with me to Argentina where she thought we would be safe but the government of Isabelle Peron was rotting with corruption. Guerrilla warfare had festered for years. Inflation and the labor unions danced a fatal waltz. On March 24th, 1976 with a proclamation of the intent to restore Basic Christian Values, the terror began. The generals, many graduates of The School of the Americas including the one in charge wove a spider’s web of torture and murder throughout every corner of the country. The Doctor soon arrived to tell the generals that the American administration would turn a blind eye if things were done quickly. Thirty thousand were dead by the time it was over. In Argentina, the generals didn’t need graduates from Milton Friedman’s Chicago School to decimate the unions and middle class, they just tortured them to death. One of them casually said, ‘In order to save twenty million Argentines from socialism it may be necessary to sacrifice fifty thousand lives.’ The American corporations needed low wage workers for their investments in the country. David Rockefeller offered generous loans to the generals as they murdered union leaders, students, journalists, professors, nuns, priests, jews.”