Basically, the Argentine military took control of a Ford plant to use as a torture chamber. It just happened to be for employees.

Consumers in the USA didn't know. We have taken action against human rights abuses in factories in the modern era and even against apartheid. But, this? I don't believe consumers in the USA had a clue about it.

The first Ford assembly plant in La Boca, Buenos Aires, c. 1921.

Ford Motor Argentina (click here) is a subsidiary of Ford Motor Company and was founded in Buenos Aires in 1913.[1] Its first products were Model Ts assembled from complete knock down (CKD) kits provided by Ford Motor Company in 1917. Nevertheless, Ford Motor Argentina is best known in more recent times for producing the Ford Focus and, previously, the Argentine version of the Ford Falcon,[2] originally a US model introduced in Argentina in 1961, but adapted to the Argentine market....

Ford was making money while this was going on, so for all intentions and purposes this inhumane activity was sanctioned by the company.

December 11, 2018
by Cassandra Garrison and Nicolas Misculin

Former Ford Motor Co. security chief Hector Sibilla leaves the court after the trial in Buenos Aires, Argentina, December 11, 2018.

...It is the first time former executives of a multinational company (click here) working in Argentina during the dictatorship have been convicted of crimes against humanity, one of the lawyers, Tomas Ojea Quintana, told Reuters in a telephone interview.

“It is clear that Ford Motor Company had control of the Argentinian subsidiary during the ‘70s. Therefore, there is a direct responsibility of Ford Motor Company and that might give us the possibility to bring the case to the U.S. courts,” Ojea Quintana said....

I wonder if the USA Congress held any hearings on this. If not, they should now.

December 11, 2018
By Uki Goni

...Although nearly 1,000 former military officers (click here) have been imprisoned over crimes committed under military rule, Tuesday’s verdict in a Buenos Aires court marked the first time executives of a foreign company have been convicted.

Former Ford executive Pedro Müller, 86, and Héctor Sibila, 90, a former Ford security manager, were sentenced to 10 and 12 years, respectively, for the kidnapping and torture of 24 employees at Ford’s General Pacheco plant outside Argentina’s capital city.

Testimony at the trial showed the executives provided the military with lists, addresses and photo IDs of workers they wanted arrested and even provided space for an illegal detention centre at the plant where the abductees could be interrogated.

“The company acted in a coordinated manner with the military,” the prosecution alleged.

Former army general Santiago Riveros, who oversaw repression in the General Pacheco area, was convicted to 15 years for the same crimes committed at the Ford plant. All three will benefit from house arrest because of their advanced age.

“Ford is an example of civilian-military state terrorism operations,” tweeted Hijos Capital, an association representing the children of the disappeared of the capital city of Buenos Aires.

The trial got under way last December in a tribunal packed with former employees of the General Pacheco plant. Prosecutors alleged that the plant was used as a clandestine detention centre.

“The majority were kidnapped right off the assembly line,” said Tomás Ojea Quintana, a lawyer for the plaintiffs at the start of the trial. “They were taken by rifle-toting military officers and paraded before the other workers so they could see what happened to their union representatives. This created an atmosphere of terror in the workplace that prevented any wage or working condition complaints.”...    

Speaking of pink. Remembering Christo and Jeanne-Claude.

December 11, 2018
By Jarrett Earnest

...These islands (click here) are dark thickets in the gleaming bay. Like “happy little accidents” populating Bob Ross’s landscapes, they’re remnants of a dredging project in the 1920s. Seeds of the invasive Australian pine found their way onto their man-made land and a haphazard ecosystem was formed. Christo and Jeanne-Claude noticed them while crossing the Venetian causeway — which connects the barrier island of Miami Beach to Miami proper — when they visited the area at the end of 1980. Almost immediately, they had an idea: to wreathe 11 of these non-naturally-occurring islands in 6-and-a-half million square feet of a woven tropical pink polypropylene, creating a wide, matlike margin of gently pulsing plastic, appearing for two weeks before being removed without a trace. They went to work, engaging the federal, state, and county’s bureaucratic machinery, creating sketches, hiring engineers, scientists, and lawyers. And they are nothing if not persistent (their 2005 The Gates project in Central Park was 26 years in the making). The effect of their installation in 1983 proved to be profound, remaining deeply embedded in the cultural psyche of a city that has since fashioned itself into a hub for international contemporary art....

...Christo and Jeanne-Claude assembled these archives to be shown in cities where they were developing new pieces, to “sensitize” them to their vision, process, and to show no harm had been done. In the exhibition, you see many of the large-scale preparatory drawings and collages, the sales of which financed the project, along with photographs by Wolfgang Volz from 1980–1983. In the pictures, you see Christo and Jeanne-Claude talking to people — everywhere from committee rooms to shipyards — modeling the elegant pantomime of renaissance painting, alongside the many stages of installation, often from the air....

Surprise, surprise, surprise; the border wall wasn't written into CAMUS.

What a disappointment this must be to Trump supporters that were promised that Mexico would pay for the border wall. Now, Trump wants the US Congress to pay for the border wall. Surprise, another bait and switch by Trump. He needs to leave the White House.

He is so proud of any promise made and promise kept, well, this is a big one and the American taxpayer is NOT building a border wall with taxpayer monies. He needs to admit the promise he made about Mexico paying for the wall and it's big beautiful door is a promise broken. 

WE ARE NOT PAYING FOR TRUMP'S FAILURES!!!!

I like that picture. Standing tough on paying for Trump's failures. Nancy looks good in pink.

December 11, 2018
By Jacqueline Alemany

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D) will head to the White House this morning to meet with President Trump

DEJA VU: It looks like President Trump (click here) could end the year just as he started it — with the self-proclaimed dealmaker unable to secure $5 billion in funding for his signature border wall between the United States and Mexico. It's either that or a partial government shutdown. 

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) head to the White House this morning where they plan to offer Trump "$1.3 billion in funding for a border fence . . . a bid that falls far short of the $5 billion Trump is demanding,” but amounts to current levels of funding for border security within the Department of Homeland Security, The Post's Erica Werner reports....