The military regime of 1976 – 83 was among the most violent dictatorships in the recent history of South America. The famous Nunca Más (Never Again) report by the National Commission on the Disappeared People (CONADEP, Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas) documented 8,961 deaths – a conservative estimate because it is nearly impossible to have a complete count (CONADEP 1984). The dictatorship was in many respects incompetent, including its economic management and its decision to invade the Falkland Islands (Malvinas) and thereby go to war with the United Kingdom in 1982.