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Torcuato di Tella University

The Torcuato Di Tella University (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella commonly referred to as UTDT or La Di Tella) is a non-profit private university founded in 1991. Located in the Belgrano neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina, it has an undergraduate enrolment of 1,200 students and a graduate enrolment of 1,300. The university is focused primarily on social sciences. The undergraduates majors available are economics, business economics, business administration, law, political science, international relations, social sciences, history and architecture. The university also offers over 30 graduate programs.

The faculty comprises 77 full-time professors, most of them graduate students and visiting scholars from universities abroad.

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The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who have tracked over 100 children stolen by Argentina’s 1976-1983 military junta, were among the human rights activists that pushed the US to declassify intelligence documents related to the dictatorship. Reuters/Marcos Brindicci

Truth, justice and declassification: Secret archives show US helped Argentine military wage ‘dirty war’ that killed 30,000

Traveling death squads. Sadistic torture techniques. Stolen babies. The US helped it all happen by aiding Argentina’s military regime in the 1970s, according to newly declassified documents.
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Furia en Argentina despues del juicio que da indulto a un criminal de la Guerra Sucia

Los argentinos están decididos a no perdonar ni olvidar a los criminales que mataron o desaparecieron a más de 30,000 personas.
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Latin American history suggests Zimbabwe’s military coup will turn violent

Some observers think Mugabe’s overthrow by the Army might be a good thing for Zimbabwe. An Argentinean expert on Latin America’s bloody military dictatorships disagrees.
Donald Trump claims victory in New York. Mike Segar/Reuters

Donald Trump wins US election: scholars from around the world react

Donald J Trump has emerged victorious in the historic, and historically acerbic, 2016 American presidential election. What does this outcome mean for the world?
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Jeffrey Sachs on meeting the Sustainable Development Goals – ‘we need a victory of ideas’

Jeffrey Sachs wants to press governments to follow through on their promises.

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