Editing Jacobo Timerman (section)

====United States====
Timerman condemned [[Henry Kissinger]] (Nixon's [[National Security Advisor (United States)|National Security Advisor]]) for supporting the military regime, even after President [[Jimmy Carter]] took office.<ref name=AllDutch /> Carter raised his administration's concerns about human rights in Argentina publicly when General Videla visited Washington DC in November 1977 to sign the [[Torrijos–Carter Treaties|Panama Canal Treaties]].<ref name=WP14April78>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|146916953}} |last1=Krause |first1=Charles A. |title=Argentina May Release Symbol of Military's Repressive Policy |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=14 April 1978 |page=A14 }}</ref> Rep. [[Silvio O. Conte]] of Massachusetts visited Timerman in early 1978, subsequently calling for his release and characterizing his imprisonment as a human rights issue.<ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|542168151}} |last1=Bono |first1=Agostino |title=Finding a Crime to Fit the Punishment |work=The Sun |location=Baltimore |date=4 April 1978 |page=A13 }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |id={{ProQuest|146966998}} |title=Plea for Argentine Editor |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=15 March 1978 |page=A24 }}</ref>

As part of a broad change in foreign policy based around human rights, the United States [[Carter Administration]] in 1978 had condemned Argentina's activities. In doing so, it reversed the position of the preceding [[Nixon Administration]], which had supported the 1976 military coup.<ref>Rein, ''Argentine Jews or Jewish Argentines?'' (2010), p. 227. "Even the US government, headed by the leader of the Democratic Party, [[Jimmy Carter]], had joined those who were openly criticizing the Argentine military junta's continual human-rights violations. This was a reversal of the approach taken by the preceding Republican administration, which, according to now declassified documents, had supported the perpetrators of the military coup and even advised them to intensify the repression before US public opinion demanded an accounting. "</ref><ref>Rein & Davidi, "Exile of the World" (2010), pp. 5–6.</ref>

While Timerman was still detained under house arrest in 1979, [[Patricia Derian]], the US Secretary for Human Rights, reported that the Argentine human rights situation had improved.<ref name=Martin1981 />

In August 1979, a group of 18 US Congresspeople spoke out on Timerman's behalf. These included [[Chris Dodd]], [[John H. Rousselot]], [[Gus Yatron]], [[Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal]], [[Henry Waxman]], and [[Gladys Spellman]], who compared the situation in Argentina to the Nazi [[Holocaust]].<ref name=JP10Aug1979 />

Several commentators have credited the Timerman case and his 1981 memoir with raising awareness of human rights abuses in South America with an otherwise apathetic United States audience.<ref>Schoijet, ''The Timerman Affair'' (1983), p. 21. "Until the appearance of Timerman's book, the general attitude of the American public and media toward Argentina's tragedy could be characterized as one of not wanting to know. [...] Jacobo Timerman managed the trick of forcing the loathsome reality of the contemporary Dark Ages down there, South of the South, down the throats of so many reluctant people.</ref>