Argentinians demonstrate to say “Never again” to the dictatorship
Thousands of Argentines demonstrated in Buenos Aires and across the country Friday on the 47th anniversary of the 1976 coup.
According to human rights organizations, some 30,000 people died or disappeared under Argentina’s dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
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Tens of thousands of people rallied in the iconic Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires and elsewhere in Argentina on Friday for the 47th anniversary of the 1976 coup. Many Argentines chanting “Never Again” gathered for the Day memory for truth and justice, in remembrance of the thousands of victims and disappeared under the military dictatorship.
This page of history has also returned to the news with the nomination for the last Oscars of “Argentina, 1985” by Santiago Mitre, a feature film telling the story of the first trial of commanders of the junta in power until 1983.
Threats to democracy
A statement in the crowded Plaza de Mayo recalled the threats to Argentine democracy, following the assassination attempt on Vice President Cristina Kirchner on September 1, 2022.
“It is impossible to minimize an attempt at magnicide (murder of an important figure in the state, editor’s note). The solidarity and disgust from leaders across Latin America, the United States, Europe and Pope Francis showed that the world understood exactly the gravity of what happened,” he said. text.
Since the repeal in 2003 of the 1987 amnesty laws, 1,115 ex-soldiers and former police officers of the dictatorship have been sentenced, according to the Argentine prosecutor’s office responsible for crimes against humanity. “Argentina has been able to manage a process as painful as that of the coup d’etat, genocide and torture and this is an example recognized worldwide,” the interior minister told Destape radio. Eduardo de Pedro, son of political activists murdered under the dictatorship.
Abducted babies
“We must preserve the memory, otherwise history will repeat itself,” pleaded on radio 750 the president of the grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto. His organization has so far succeeded in reestablishing the identity of 132 people kidnapped babies by the dictatorship from their detained or missing parents.
Dictator Jorge Videla, first pardoned by right-wing ex-president Carlos Menem, was sentenced to life imprisonment after this systematic plan of baby thefts came to light. He died in custody in 2013. According to human rights organizations, some 30,000 people died or disappeared under Argentina’s dictatorship from 1976 to 1983.
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