On 4 November Argentina’s defence minister, Augustín Rossi, announced that a clean-up of old military files had uncovered a series of ‘blacklists’ with the names of artists and journalists considered ‘uncooperative’ by Argentina’s last military government (1976-1983). Along with the other military governments in the Southern Cone at the time, Argentina launched the infamous ‘Plan Cóndor’, a regional intelligence-sharing operation begun in the mid-1970s that allowed the authoritarian right-wing governments to systematically target and persecute government opponents regardless of where they lived. Rossi said that the documents were part of a large file collection discovered in the basement of the…