In the past five years after the Argentine economy tanked, President Nestor Kirchner's government has paid off the national debt. It is all the more disturbing to hear Marie Trigona's important feature about the dismal state of human rights in Argentina. Thirty-one years after the military junta responsible for 30,000 "disappeared" Argentines, trials to convict former members of the dictatorship have been put on hold. Julio Lopez, a prominent civilian witness of the atrocities of bygone years, vanished last fall, and many children whose parents were victims of death squads in the '70s and '80s feel threatened by the police.

This piece seems newsworthy, especially when our American media has portrayed the governments in Venezuela, Bolivia, and Argentina as left-wing and anti-American, not abusive of human rights. We continually need to hear about potential mini-holocausts and their after-effects, wherever they occur.

I hope Trigona's brand-new feature finds a home on "All Things Considered" or "Morning Edition."