Detenidos Desaparecidos
Disappeared Detainees (Spanish: detenidos desaparecidos, DD. DD) is the term commonly used in Latin American countries to refer to the victims of kidnappings, usually taken to clandestine detention and torture centers, and crimes of forced disappearance, committed by various authoritarian military dictatorships during the 1970s and 1980s, and officially recognized, among others, by the governments of Argentina (1984) and Chile (1991). == Origin == The simultaneous and massive appearance of this practice in various countries is considered to be the result of the common training provided to Latin American military personnel by the U.S. Defense Department at its School of the Americas in Panama.