Last week I raed about Sister Alicia Domon, a religious sister who was "disappeared" by the Argentine military. Her death, and that of others who stood beside the Madres ( that is the mothers) of the disappeared, gave rise to jokes about flying nuns. They used to drop them out of aeroplanes.
Slowly I am getting through the big yellow book that is Naomi Klein's The Shock Doctrine. It chronicles the rise of Friedman economics, the neo-liberal and how such economic "liberalisation" needs social repression. Around 14,000 civilians were killed or disappeared in Argentina between 1976 and 1983. The mothers and a few brave nuns stood against the brutality.
The picture of one of these brave women is from their website.
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