The judiciary conducted a search in the house of late former army commander Carlos Suárez Mason, who was responsible for clandestine detention and torture centers in Buenos Aires during the last military dictatorship in Argentina.

The goal was to look for documentation that could help in an ongoing case investigating the crimes committed by the First Army Corps — whose commander was Suárez Mason between 1976-1979 — as the group leading repression operations and the detention centers in Buenos Aires City and most of Buenos Aires province.

A judiciary source told the Herald that the goal of the search carried out on Friday was to potentially find materials or documentation that could provide useful information on the military’s repressive activities of the First Army Corps.

However, they ruled out the possibility of there being documentation regarding the whereabouts of disappeared people or their stolen children.

The search was conducted by the Argentine Federal Police and was overseen........

© Buenos Aires Herald