EAAF identifies dictatorship victim buried in Tucumán mass grave

The remains of Carlos Rafael Medina, a victim of Argentina’s last dictatorship who was kidnapped in 1976, were identified last week after being recovered from the Pozo de Vargas (Vargas’ Pit) mass grave in Tucumán province, in northwestern Argentina. The pit is the country’s largest clandestine burial site. The analysis and genetic identification were carried out by the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF, by its Spanish acronym) in Buenos Aires and announced on Friday. The remains had been recovered by a group of archaeologists from Tucumán known as the Archaeology, Memory and…