Which dictatorships were worse - the Southern Cone ones or the Central American ones?

[Erronkari]

Argentina under Videla IMO.

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[Annie999]

All dictatorships are awful for any nation, but for some reason the Southern Cone got to get back on their feet faster than Central American countries. I don't know the internal facts on why that happened, but nowadays the Southern Cone is way better -socially and economically- than the central american countries. That's why I'm voting for Central America on the poll.

Southern Cone: Argentina, (south of) Brazil, Chile, Uruguay.

One interesting fact on the dictatorship in Uruguay, is the guerrilleros that got incarcerated and torturated during that time were voted to be in power 30 something years later, for example ex-president Jose Mujica.

[Peterski]

https://worldview.stratfor.com/artic...-south-america

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-24014501

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[Carlito's Way]

i think its both

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[RMuller]

Both has brutal dictatorships.

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[Erronkari]

In the southern cone, Argentina (where about 30,000 Argentinians, and some few foreigners, were abducted, tortured, and disappeared) and in Central America, El Salvador (I think there were 60,000 disappeared people in the Salvadorean civil war, but I am not sure if the 60,000 of dead/disappeared were as cause of the civil war, independently of their political orientation, or if they were they were all disappeared by the Salvadorean military regime).

Alnorte I hate dictators but those 30.000 is a symbolic number (most ONGS say between 8.000 and 9.000) and it wasn't proved by facts.
Another point is that many who died were leftist terrorists.
IMO both were bastards, the military junta and terrorists in equal.