US 'permanently' denies visa to German journalist probing Argentine rights violations - Yahoo! News: "A journalists' group in Argentina tried Tuesday to intercede on behalf of one of its members who was permanently denied a U.S. visa after travelling to Washington to do research at the National Archives.
Argentina's foreign correspondents' association sent a letter to the Embassy on behalf of Gabriele Weber, a German freelancer living in Argentina.
Weber has long reported for German news media, specializing in investigations of Nazi war criminals and human rights violations in South America. She is perhaps best known for her lawsuit that forced Germany's intelligence service last year to open thousands of files on top Nazi Adolf Eichmann, some of which showed that the U.S. and Germany knew he was hiding in Argentina after World War II.
'The impossibility of entering the United States has caused serious damage' to Weber's journalistic work, the association complained."
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