My parents fled Argentina in 1981 to escape the military junta. I don't know much about the Dirty War - they've never liked to talk about it - , so I'd like to read up on it.
Thanks in advance!
So I went through the rules to see if there was anything about answering old questions, but if there is, please mods let me know. I want to start my answer by saying I was in the same situation as you and as such had done a research paper in one of my history courses while in college so the readings I suggest to you are in no shape exhaustive but a good starting point to understand what took place.
The first biggest reading is the Official Public Summary of the Comisión Nacional Sobre La Desparición De Personas (CONADEP). This is the report by the democratic government compiling over 50,000 pages of documentation published in 1984. This is a good source to understand what the Dirty War looked like in the process, who were taken, where they might've been taken to, how many were taken.
This next reading is a primary source of one of the Dirty Wars victims who survived. Jacobo Timmermans' Prisoner without a Name, Cell without a Number. Published in 1982 it details his personal experience of not only speaking out about what was happening during the Dirty War but also of being a victim himself. Timmerman was not only the owner of a newspaper that repeatedly published articles against the Military Junta but was also Jewish, a group that was actively discriminated against during this time period.
The next sources I will list are some secondary publications that discuss the Peron Era, because to understand the Dirty War and what happened it's also necessary to understand how the environment let it be created. Marvin Goldwerts' Democracy, Militarism, and Nationalism in Argentina: 1930-1966. Published in 1972. Donald C. Hodges' Argentina, 1943-1987: The National Revolution and Resistance. Published in 1988. Robert J. Alexanders' The Peron Era. Published in 1955.
This next source is a journal article published on Jstor but discusses an ever present reminder of the Dirty War. Nora Amalia and Carlos Ariel Gils article "Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza De Mayo: The Mourning Process from Junta to Democracy" discusses the organization Madres de Plaza de Mayo which is made up of mothers and grandmothers who campaigned against the government for their missing children and now as the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo who attempt to reunite children taken from parents who were victims and given to military families.