“We have followed events in Argentina closely. We wish the government well. We wish it will succeed. We will do what we can to help it succeed. We are aware you are in a difficult period. It is a curious time, when political, criminal, and terrorist activities tend to merge without any clear separation. We understand you must establish authority.”

—US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to Argentine Admiral César Augusto Guzzetti, June 6, 1976

“It takes courage for a society to address uncomfortable truths about darker parts of its past. Confronting crimes committed by our own leaders, by our own people—that can be divisive and frustrating. But it’s essential to moving forward; to building a peaceful and prosperous future in a country that respects the rights of all its citizens. There’s been controversy about the policies of the United States early in those dark days, and the United States, when it reflects on what happened here, has to examine its own policies as well, and its own past.”

—President Barack Obama at Parque de la Memoria, Argentina, on March 24, 2016, in remarks honoring the victims of the Argentinian military dictatorship