Last night a large gap in my knowledge of Argentina was filled. It seems that while Silvio Berlusconi was cracking extremely offensive jokes about Argentines killed in the Dirty War, his knowledge of the subject could hardly be called scant. This because the outlawed Freemasonary lodge of which he is a member also counts numerous high ranking 1970's Argentine military people on its roster.
The contents of this report in Argentina's Critica daily opened my eyes to this connection (an excellent read for those versed in Spanish and recommended). It turns out that Berlusconi is a member of the so-called "black lodge" of Italian freemasons known as P-2 that has been connected to lots of shenanigans over the years. So much so, in fact, that the official Italian freemasonary society has banned and disassociates itself from P-2. Plenty of P-2 members have direct connections to Benito Mussolini (for example, his chief of police is a member), but it's remarkable to see just how many of the Argentine military directly responsible for the atrocities of the Dirty War also figure as members (links to some of the more interesting characters provided).
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