Argentina wins the Youth World Cup with Maradona (standing on the right side!)
In 1979, the Papal Mediation starts to prevent a military conflict between Argentina and Chile over the Beagle Channel.
Under pressure by the Carter administration and the international community, the Argentinean military government receives the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
In 1979, Argentinean military dictatorship receives a loan from the UK to purchase armament from that country which later will be used in the Malvinas/Falkland's War in 1982, as reported by British newspaper The Financial Times on April 9th, 2012.
This debt of £45 million which the "Jubilee Debt Campaign" wants annulled because "it [the loan] was given with full knowledge and total lack of prudence to a dictatorship that would not use it for development," was still, in 2012, contested and the government of David Cameron, even then "had no intention of pardoning it." This load was used to purchase two Lynx helicopters and two Type 42 naval destroyers.
Argentineans are right(-eous) and human(-itarian)
The event: A supposedly "spontaneous and popular" response from the Argentinean people on the occasion of the visit of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) on reports of human rights abuses by the military government.
The response from the government: Spent public funds to print 250,000 stickers with the slogan "Argentineans are right(-eous) and human(-itarian)" (wordplay on "human rights") with the background of the Argentinean flag, to be distributed and placed on cars' windows and shown all over the city of Buenos Aires.
Strategy: By a secret decree from General A. Harguindeguy to use public funds for purchase of the stickers and the fees of the consulting company (Burson Martelles).
Purpose: To cover up statements from witnesses of state terrorism (what goverment called the "Anti-Argentinean campaign") and improve the image of the government.
Result: The phrase became a meme, repeated and ingrained in people's consciousness, and later becoming a shameful memory.
The emblematic film 'La Nona' opens in Argentina. The film tells the story of a granny who devours everything in her path, food, emotions, and things until there is nothing but her. Has been seen as a parody of the political situation in Argentina at the time.
Grandchildren #2 and #3, appropriated by the dictatorship, were found in South America.
