Desaparecidos

:For the American band, see Desaparecidos (band).

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Desaparecidos means literally "the disappeared" in Spanish, and is a reference to people who were arrested, often illegally, by various South American military governments and then vanished. Forced disappearance was followed by detention in camps, often interrogation under torture, and finally murder, sometimes performed under the guise of a legal execution, but usually intending to leave no traces.

Related Topics:
Spanish - South America - Forced disappearance - Torture - Murder

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The verb desaparecer, like its English translation disappear, is grammatically intransitive, but it is used in this word to imply causativity (so desaparecidos are people who were "made to disappear").

Related Topics:
Intransitive - Causativity

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