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US denies condoning ‘torture of innocents’ Guillermo Háskel and Peter Johnson / Buenos Aires Herald | April 28 2006 The US ambassador in Argentina said yesterday that his country never backed the violation of human rights or condoned the torture of innocent people during the 1976-83 military dictatorship that according to President Néstor Kirchner assassinated or made disappear 30,000 people. "The US never supported the violation of human rights or that innocents be tortured," said outgoing Ambassador Lino Gutiérrez at a diplomatic and business lunch. He was asked by the Herald to comment on documents recently declassified in the US that said the then US secretary of state Henry Kissinger had sought immediate support for the Argentine dictators. Asked whether the US was planning to issue a mea culpa, such as the Argentine military forces have made for the dictatorship’s aberrations, Cuban-born Gutiérrez said, "I have no instructions about that." He also said: "Those events occurred in 1976 and 1977. It was before my posting. History will tell what happened. However, some articles I have read are not accurate." Also attending the lunch were several former officials of the dictatorship, among them Jorge Zo-rreguieta, a former agriculture secretary, who is the father of Argentine-born Dutch Princess Máxima Zorreguieta. See Argentina ---------------------------------------------------
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