Pictures worth more than their allotted thousand words

Simple but deeply moving photographs.

No long commentary on this post as the images speak for themselves. Thirteen photo pairs that explain better than a million words what the word dictatorship means and what it did to Argentina. Click on any photo to enlarge.

UPDATE: Thanks to kind readers, we now have two links for these wonderful photos. This one at Taringa and this one at UNESCO. Also, here's the link to the photographer Gustavo Germano's website.

To celebrate the visit of King Juan Carlos and Queen Consort Sofia of Spain to Peru this week.......

....here's a photo from a previous visit Juan Carlos made to South America.

Poor old Juan Carlos....all that politics stuff never seems to end, does it?

For educational purposes here's the link to the wiki page for Jorge Videla, just in case you don't know who he is or what he did in Argentina between 1976 and 1981 (and I don't just mean hand over the World Cup to the winning Argentina team in 1978, people). Here's how the wikipage starts:

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Jorge Rafael Videla Redondo (born August 21, 1925 in Mercedes, Buenos Aires) was the dictator and President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981. He came to power in a coup d'état that deposed Isabel Martínez de Perón. After the return to democracy, he was prosecuted for large-scale human rights abuses and crimes against humanity that took place under his rule, including kidnappings or forced disappearance, widespread torture and extrajudicial murder of activists, political opponents (either real, suspected or alleged), as well as their families, at secret concentration camps. The accusations also included the theft of many babies born during the captivity of their mothers at the illegal detention centres. He was under house arrest^[1] until October 10, 2008 when he was sent to a military prison.