By Maira Magro
Defense Minister Rubén Saavedra says the military is ready to comply with a Supreme Court order to declassify documents from the military dictatorship led by General Luis García Meza (1980-1981), AFP reports.
Reporters without Borders praised the decision, but recalled that the military blocked the access last February of documents solicited by the attorney general who presides over the commission that is investigating 156 disappearances and killings during the regime, the group explains.
The opening of the archive could help reveal what happened to people who disappeared, and to identify military officers who occupied key posts in the dictatorship.
Note from the editor: This story was originally published by the Knight Center’s blog Journalism in the Americas, the predecessor of LatAm Journalism Review.
