CIA declassified papers focus of art exhibit in Argentina
CIA declassified papers focus of art exhibit in Argentina
Jul 15, 4:11 PM EDT
By ALMUDENA CALATRAVA
Associated Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Chilean artist Voluspa Jarpa has turned declassified CIA documents into an exhibit focused on one of Latin America's darkest periods.
The show, which also includes videos, audios and paintings, opened this week in Buenos Aires at the Museum of Latin American Art, known as MALBA.
For more than a decade, Jarpa collected Cold War-era declassified documents that span from 1948-1994. A large portion of the information shows the CIA's involvement with the region's dictatorships that killed and forcibly "disappeared" thousands of people during the 1970s and 1980s.
Hundreds of copies of papers documenting the brutalities of the regimes have been hung from the high ceilings of the museum's main hall for the exhibition, "In Our Little Region Over Here."
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