Paraguayans’ mission to search for loved ones feels less visible and more challenging than others in Latin America.

In Peru, out of 20,000 disappeared people, only 3,200 remains have been found. In Colombia, five decades of war left a staggering death toll and more than 124,000 people missing. Paraguay’s dictatorship left a smaller number of disappeared (500 people), but only 15 bodies have been recovered.

Federico Tatter holds a photo of his father, who was detained and disappeared in Argentina in 1976 during Paraguay's Stroessner dictatorship, during an interview at the Military Academy in Asuncion,