Argentina Kidnap Victim Ends National Tour at Ft

PATRICIA ISASA At the time of her kidnapping in July of 1976, Patricia Indiana Isasa was a 16-year-old high-school student in Santa Fe, Argentina. She was taken by a commando group of the state police and “disappeared” for three months. She was then taken to a military barracks, tortured, and held prisoner without trial or due process for two years and two months. In 1997 Patricia initiated an investigation into the incident. Thanks to her relentless efforts, today eight people are in jail and awaiting trial, including an ex-federal judge, an ex-assistant secretary for security of Santa Fe, and several ex-policemen (one of them a graduate of the School of the Americas).

Patricia discusses "Surviving the Dirty War"

& introduces her film

"El Cerco"

"The Fence" is a documentary of Ms. Isasa's return to Santa Fe, her discovery of the identities of those responsible for violent repression of civil rights during the seventies, interviews with her torturers, and the subsequent arrests of high-level military and government officials.