The Blond Angel of Death: He Infiltrated Grieving Mothers — Then Vanished Them
He had the face of an angel. Soft features. Blond hair. A gentle voice that made mothers trust him with their deepest pain.
In 1977, Alfredo Astiz posed as one of them — a brother searching for his disappeared sibling — and walked straight into the heart of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Within weeks, the vans came. The founders were taken. Two French nuns vanished with them. Most were never seen alive again.
This is the story of Argentina’s Blond Angel of Death, the ESMA torture center, and one of the most calculated betrayals of the Dirty War.
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