In 1978, Argentina’s president General Jorge Rafael Videla handed the World Cup trophy to his country’s victorious captain Daniel Passarella. ”If I’d known then what was happening, I wouldn’t have played at all,” Passarella would say later. Argentina beat Holland in the final at the Monumental stadium in Buenos Aires. Two kilometres away was the Naval Mechanical School, or Esma. In Argentina, they speak of the horrors of Esma. Of the estimated 5000 people taken prisoner and tortured there, 90 per cent didn’t come out alive. Some who did leave the complex were put in planes and dumped into the…

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