[[Juan E. Mendez]] "of Human Rights Watch/Americas, who contributes the useful afterword to this book." [http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.17309,filter.all/pub_detail.asp]
Verbitsky, "a prominent journalist who also heads the [[Center of Legal and Social Studies]], an Argentine human rights group." [http://www.sigloxxi.org/Archivo/notice.htm]
On November 20, 2001, he received the International Press Freedom Award from the [[Committee to Protect Journalists]]. [http://www.cpj.org/awards01/verbitsky.html]