By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 31 October 2025
The Nazis Who Fled to South America: Where, Who, and Why?
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A Note on the History of Uruguay to 1945
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on 29 October 2025
“Banda Oriental del Uruguay” (the Eastern Bank of the [Rio/River] Uruguay) was a zone populated by four main Native tribes, all of them nomadic hunter-gatherers and fisherman, whose chiefdoms were more decentralised assemblages than geographic settlements. The lack of resources and population was among the reasons Uruguay was claimed relatively late by the Spanish, after the arrival of Juan Díaz de Solís in 1516, and remained largely uninhabited for about a century. The first permanent Spanish settlement in Uruguay was the Jesuit mission at Santo Domingo de Soriano founded in 1624. Cattle were introduced into Uruguay about a decade earlier and some farmers entered the territory, but it was only after Uruguay became a strategic flash-point on the contested Spanish-Portuguese frontier later in the seventeenth century that the Spanish started to seriously settle Uruguay.
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Iran and Global Terror: From Argentina to the Fertile Crescent
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on February 27, 2015
Khobar Towers, which Iran jointly bombed with al-Qaeda
Argentina’s government yesterday announced it was dissolving the Secretariat of Intelligence (S.I.), an intelligence agency tainted by the “Dirty War” regimes (1974-83), and more recent abuses as President Cristina Kirchner has taken Argentina back toward autocracy, and replacing it with a Federal agency. Just two days before, charges of corruption were levelled against Antonio Stiusso, S.I.’s director until Kirchner fired him in December. At the beginning of this month, Stiusso went missing. It now seems Stiusso has taken shelter in a neighbouring State.
These events are the latest twist in an extraordinary saga that has followed the discovery of the body of Alberto Nisman on Jan. 18 in his apartment in Buenos Aires, shot in the head in an apparent suicide. Nisman was a prosecutor investigating the July 18, 1994, bombing of the Argentine Israelite Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Argentina’s capital. All the evidence that Nisman had gathered pointed to Iran as the perpetrator. Few believe Nisman committed suicide, and—the history of Argentines being “suicided” considered—most fingers are pointing at Iran. Continue reading
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