Abstract
Robert Cox has been editor of the English-language Buenos Aires Herald since 1968. While generally sympathetic to the military government, the Herald became well known for its criticism of the methods used against the regime's opponents. Almost alone among the Argentinian press it took up the cases of disappeared prisoners and championed their families.
In December 1979, after a series of threats culminated in a letter to his ten-year-old son, Robert Cox and his family left the country for what they hope will be a brief period of ‘a kind of exile’.