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The article reports that Miguel Etchecolatz, a retired police commissioner, has been sentenced to life in prison for murder, torture and kidnapping during Argentina's "dirty war." It is one of the first sentences since amnesty laws were scrapped in 2005. Etchecolatz ran clandestine detention centers as provincial police commissioner for Buenos Aires during the dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.

Reviews the motion picture "The Blonds," written and directed by Albertina Carri, with Analía Couceyro.

Presents the case of Ford employee Pedro Troiani in Argentina who was placed in a special detention camp in April 1976 as part of the dirty war against anyone considered a leftist opponent by the military dictatorship that ruled from 1976 to 1983.

Reports on the possibility that Argentina will prosecute for crimes committed during the 1976-83 dictatorship and the mixed reactions of citizens to the proposal.

Focuses on the trials in 1998 of retired Admiral Emillio Massera, former junta leader in the 1970s in Argentina. Comparison to the case of Chilean General Augusto Pinochet in Great Britain; Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon as handling both cases; Charges against Massera, including the kidnapping of infants.