Tag: Juan Gelman

• Monday, December 24th 2018 - 18:40 UTC

  Writer, historian Osvaldo Bayer dies at age 91

  

  Argentine writer and historian Osvaldo Bayer died Monday at the age of 91, his daughter Ana confirmed on social media. “Unfortunately I have to give a sad news, my dad Osvaldo Bayer has died,” she wrote on Facebook in Spanish, Italian and German.

• Friday, March 25th 2011 - 01:51 UTC

  Human Rights Court calls on Uruguay to remove ‘dirty war’ amnesty law

  

  Uruguay must remove obstacles to prosecuting human rights offences committed during its “dirty war” in the 1970s, including an amnesty that had protected military and police officers accused of killings, kidnappings or torture, the Inter-American Human Rights Court ruled.