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Forensic team identifies eight dictatorship victims at La Calera

Córdoba judicial authorities identified eight victims of Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship whose remains were found at the La Calera military compound. The Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology has identified 38 people buried in the compound’s Loma del Torito area so far.

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What happened

Key facts

  • Córdoba judicial authorities announced the identification of eight victims of the 1976-1983 military dictatorship.
  • The eight victims’ names are not provided in the supplied source text.
  • La Perla operated at the compound, and an estimated 2,500 people were held there.

The brief

Córdoba judicial authorities have identified eight victims of Argentina’s 1976-1983 military dictatorship whose remains were found at the La Calera military compound, the Buenos Aires Herald reported.

The Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology made the identifications, which name Néstor Albino Acosta, Pascual Delfín Ludueña, Claudio Norberto Nardini, Cecilia Alicia Pessina de Ávila, Mónica Protti de Guillén, Mercedes del Valle Ramírez, María Luisa Salto and Juan Carlos Soulier.

The Buenos Aires Herald reported that the armed forces kidnapped the eight people in 1976 and took them to La Perla, where they were illegally detained and murdered. The clandestine detention center operated at the compound from 1976 to 1978. An estimated 2,500 people were held there, the outlet reported.

The eight identifications are part of a wider effort to identify people buried in the Loma del Torito area of the compound. The forensic team has identified 38 people there so far, according to the Buenos Aires Herald. The outlet reported that the judicial authorities announced the latest identifications, but did not specify when the announcement took place.

Sebastián Soulier, the son of Juan Carlos Soulier, said at a press conference that the process was returning the identities of 38 people to their families after 50 years. He also described finding them as a source of comfort during a difficult period. His comments referred to the broader group identified at the site, not only the eight newly named victims.

Rosa Miriam Ludueña, the niece of Pascual Delfín, said the discovery brought comfort and moved the families closer to peace, justice and honoring life. Her statement connected the identifications to the families’ hopes, while the reported findings establish the names of eight people and the circumstances of their detention and murder.

The Buenos Aires Times headline also reported that a court confirmed the identities of eight victims at a Córdoba dictatorship site. It provides no further details about the ruling or the identifications. The Buenos Aires Herald’s account says the remains were found at La Calera and that the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology carried out the identifications.

The account does not identify the specific court or explain the procedure behind its confirmation.

Why it matters

  • The reported findings identify eight people whom the armed forces kidnapped, detained and murdered, giving their families names linked to the remains found at La Calera.
  • The forensic team has identified 38 people buried in the Loma del Torito area, placing the eight identifications within a larger set of cases at the compound.
  • The account says an estimated 2,500 people were held at La Perla, the detention center that operated at the compound from 1976 to 1978.

What to watch next

  • Whether Córdoba judicial authorities announce further identifications from the Loma del Torito area.
  • Whether the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology identifies additional people among those buried at the compound.
  • Whether the court mentioned in the Buenos Aires Times headline provides further details about its confirmation of the eight identities.

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Timeline

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  1. Juan Perón died, and Vice-President Isabel Perón became president of Argentina.
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  2. President Isabel Perón's government issued decrees ordering military operations against what they called subversive elements.
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  3. Armed forces kidnapped the eight people in 1976 and took them to La Perla, a clandestine detention and torture center near Córdoba run under the command of the Third Army Corps.
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  4. Argentina's armed forces overthrew President Isabel Perón and installed a military junta.
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  5. After the dictatorship ended, President Raúl Alfonsín created the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, or CONADEP, by decree on December 15, 1983.
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  6. The team, known as EAAF, was founded in 1984 to locate and identify people who had been forcibly disappeared during Argentina’s military dictatorship.
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  7. Argentina's Trial of the Juntas convicted senior former military commanders.
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  8. Argentina's Congress annulled laws that had restricted prosecutions of dictatorship-era crimes.
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  9. Argentina's Supreme Court declared the laws restricting prosecutions unconstitutional.
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  10. The United Nations General Assembly adopted the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance.
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How we got here

Before Córdoba’s 2026 identifications, the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology had identified 38 people buried in the Loma del Torito area of the La Calera military compound, according to reporting on the investigation. The team, known as EAAF, was founded in 1984 to locate and identify people who had been forcibly disappeared during Argentina’s military dictatorship.

The disappearances at La Calera belong to the state repression carried out during Argentina’s 1976–1983 dictatorship, which the ruling junta called the National Reorganization Process. Armed forces kidnapped the eight people in 1976 and took them to La Perla, a clandestine detention and torture center near Córdoba run under the command of the Third Army Corps.

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