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Grandson lost during Argentina ‘dirty war’ emerges

By Ben Fox
Published August 8, 2014 11:08pm ET
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Grandson lost during Argentina ‘dirty war’ emerges
Estela de Carlotto, president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, right, and her grandson Ignacio Hurban hold a news conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Aug. 8, 2014. A provincial music teacher in Argentina, Hurban, is making his first public appearance since he was dramatically identified as the long-sought grandson of the country's leading human rights activist, Estela de Carlotto. The activist spent 36 years searching for the child taken from her daughter, who was executed by the military during the country's military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) | Natacha Pisarenko

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — A provincial music teacher in Argentina emerged in public Friday for the first time since being abruptly thrust into the limelight as a symbol of his country’s reckoning with the brutal dictatorship of the 1970s and 1980s.

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