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A. Obama’s Buenos Aires visit coincides with the 40th anniversary of the 1976 military coup that started Argentina’s 1976-83 dictatorship and its “Dirty War.” Little is known about the U.S. role leading up to that period, in which thousands of people were forcibly disappeared and babies systematically stolen from political prisoners.
C. Chile's military ousted the nation's socialist president in 1973 and ruled until 1990. U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger said the U.S. 'helped” the coup in Chile and later urged Argentina's foreign minister to clamp down on dissidents they referred to as “terrorists.” Nearly 10,000 dissidents were killed in Chile and at least 13,000 died in Argentina.
B. Brazil is largest country in South America and has the largest economy in Latin America. It borders Argentina to the northeast. Argentina is the second-largest nation in South America and also borders Bolivia and Paraguay to the north and Uruguay to the east. China's influence in Latin America has grown along with its rapidly expanding economy.
D. The Falklands War was a ten-week war between Argentina and the United Kingdom over two British overseas territories in the South Atlantic: the Falkland Islands and South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Argentina's military dictators used the nation's age-old claim to the islands to divert public attention from a slumping economy and civil unrest.