During a year in the Southern Cone in 2007-’08, our production offices were in Buenos Aires, barrio Palermo, but we branched out from Palermo to explore every barrio of this fabled city.
Ford Falcons (Los Falcons) were everywhere, usually in various states of disrepair that often made one ask how they could possibly still be on the road! There were Falcon sedans, convertibles, station wagons and pickup trucks.
The Falcon had a 30 year production run in Argentina, from 1962 to 1991, during which over 500,000 Falcons were manufactured.
The Falcon was the most popular and best selling car in Argentina both before and during the “Dirty War,” a military dictatorship that lasted from 1976 to 1983. An estimated 160,000 to 170,000 units were produced during the eight years of the dictatorship alone in spite of nerve wracking political unrest nationwide.
Adding yet another layer to the nearly mythical life of Los Falcons in Argentina and the Southern Cone, the military junta running the nation used olive green Falcons as the official vehicle when arresting and transporting citizens suspected of political opposition. These purported activists all too frequently joined the ranks of an estimated 30,000 Argentinians who were tortured and/or “disappeared” by the dictatorship.
To commemorate the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice in Argentina in 2021, Argentine artist Pablo Bernasconi famously created his “Nunca más” artwork using an olive green Falcon to depict the upside down moral universe that informed the dictatorship’s nearly decade long run of brutality and violent absurdity.
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During a year in the Southern Cone in 2007-’08, our production offices were in Buenos Aires, barrio Palermo, but we branched out from Palermo to explore every barrio of this fabled city.
Ford Falcons (Los Falcons) were everywhere, usually in various states of disrepair that often made one ask how they could possibly still be on the road! There were Falcon sedans, convertibles, station wagons and pickup trucks.
The Falcon had a 30 year production run in Argentina, from 1962 to 1991, during which over 500,000 Falcons were manufactured.
The Falcon was the most popular and best selling car in Argentina both before and during the “Dirty War,” a military dictatorship that lasted from 1976 to 1983. An estimated 160,000 to 170,000 units were produced during the eight years of the dictatorship alone in spite of nerve wracking political unrest nationwide.
Adding yet another layer to the nearly mythical life of Los Falcons in Argentina and the Southern Cone, the military junta running the nation used olive green Falcons as the official vehicle when arresting and transporting citizens suspected of political opposition. These purported activists all too frequently joined the ranks of an estimated 30,000 Argentinians who were tortured and/or “disappeared” by the dictatorship.
To commemorate the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice in Argentina in 2021, Argentine artist Pablo Bernasconi famously created his “Nunca más” artwork using an olive green Falcon to depict the upside down moral universe that informed the dictatorship’s nearly decade long run of brutality and violent absurdity.
“Nunca más”