The remains of Carlos Rafael Medina, a victim of Argentina’s last dictatorship who was kidnapped in 1976, were identified last week after being recovered from the Pozo de Vargas (Vargas’ Pit) mass grave in Tucumán province, in northwestern Argentina. The pit is the country’s largest clandestine burial site.

The analysis and genetic identification were carried out by the Argentine Team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF, by its Spanish acronym) in Buenos Aires and announced on Friday. 

The remains had been recovered by a group of archaeologists from Tucumán known as the Archaeology, Memory and Identity Collective of Tucumán (CAMIT, in Spanish).

The two organizations have been carrying out an excavation, recovery and analysis project in the Pozo de Vargas for more than two decades. During that time, they have recovered the remains of 149 individuals. Of those, 122 have now been identified, including........

© Buenos Aires Herald