How they came to perish in those frigid waters is a testament to the horrors of a period of state violence in Argentina, when as many as 30,000 people were killed in a government campaign to stamp out left-wing activism and political dissent.īut the seven bodies that washed ashore in the late 1970s were victims of a particularly gruesome form of execution: They were among those who had been hurled, oftentimes alive, from planes into the river below, in what became known as “death flights”. They had all been prisoners of a clandestine detention centre run by the military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983. The wind - called a sudestada - pushed seven bodies ashore about 300 kilometres (186 miles) south of Buenos Aires between December 1977 and January 1978.Īmong the bodies were mothers who had been looking for their disappeared children and a nun who had helped in their search. Jordan Élodie Yung Joe Dempsie Topher Grace Mary Elizabeth Winstead Gary Cole Samira Wiley Daisuke Tsuji Maurice LaMarche Rebecca Riedy Helen Sadler Hayley McLaughlin Time Winters Elly Condron Stefan Kapicic Bruce Thomas Jeff Berg Aaron Himelstein Carlos Alazraqui Jill Talley Brian Bloom Chris Cox Michael Benyaer Fred Tatasciore Scott Whyte Josh Brener Gary Anthony Williams Chris Parnell Graham Hamilton Adam Bartley Kevin Michael Richardson Emma Thornett Henry Douthwaite Madeleine Knight Rebecca Banatvala Kirk Thornton Yuri Lowenthal Elaine Tan Matthew Yang King Gwendoline Yeo Neil Kaplan G.K.Buenos Aires, Argentina – The haunting discovery might never have happened were it not for the sudden rotation of a cold southern wind, howling across the Rio de la Plata estuary between Argentina and Uruguay. Joe Manganiello Rosario Dawson Seth Green Michael B.

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