I've lived in Argentina for twenty years, and I have to say there's a huge qualitative difference between this and la guerra sucia.During those years, there was

I've lived in Argentina for twenty years, and I have to say there's a huge qualitative difference between this and la guerra sucia.During those years, there was actual fear that if you fought against the dictatorship, your your family or our friends could disappear without a trace any day. Nothing like that is going on today. There's certainly repression and police brutality, and signs of a police state, but on a completely different level. A few days back I saw a list of people who allegedly where every single person that has died because of state mandated police action since the end of the dictatorship. The list is 66 people long. While this makes sick to my stomach, I have only to go to my college and look at the wall to see a list of people from that college that died during the dictatorship. That list has close to one hundred and fifty people on it. Just from one college. There's just no point of comparison. Most of this people simply banished, there corpses were never found, the women were probably raped, some of their kids taken and raised by the people who tortured them to death. The current tendency towards a police state sucks, but I find it very hard to compare it with what happened between '76 an '83.