Andrew Graham-Yooll obituary
During the dark days of the military dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s, there was only one newspaper that dared to publish the names of the "disappeared" - let alone to put them every day on the front page, as Andrew Graham-Yooll did as news editor of the Buenos Aires Herald.
Graham-Yooll, who has died aged 75, nearly paid with his life for such audacity. In 1976 he and his first wife, Micaela Meyer, got out just in time - "out of the back door and straight to the airport", as he put it - as the men in the black Ford Falcons came looking for him. He never wanted to go into exile but had little choice other than to resettle in London until the generals - "those bastards" as he referred to them - were removed from power by a combination of the Falklands war and economic incompetence.
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