The Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires held this Thursday a special session dedicated to remembering a new anniversary of coup of March 24, 1976, in the framework of which two allusive declarations were approved to commemorate the date and ratify the figure of 30,000 disappeared. During the vote, the legislators of the space of Javier Milei, freedom advancesand Ricardo López Murphy, United Republicans.
The first of the projects “mournfully commemorates the National Day for Memory, Truth and Justice” and “pays tribute to the 30,000 disappeared detaineesreaffirming the commitment to the unrestricted defense of human rights“. The second, for his part, declared “of interest” the 2022 edition of the March of the Torches of San Telmo in homage to the victims.
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Special session for Memory Day in the Legislature of CABA.
Both were accompanied by the votes of the spaces of the front of all, Let’s go together and UCR-Evolutionwhile the deputies of the Left Front Unity were “absent with notice” and sent a statement since at the same time a march was being carried out through the March 24th and they considered that “the streets are the best scenario to give these fights”.
In a #SpecialSession Legislators from the City of Buenos Aires remembered the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.
– CABA Legislature (@LegisCABA) March 24, 2022
However, the five members of the La Libertad Avanza bloc, Ramiro Marra, Rebeca Fleitas, Lucia Montenegro, Leonardo Saifert and oscar zagoand those of Republicans United, Roberto Garcia Moritan and Marina Kienastexpressed their negative vote.
Milei Space Legislators Speech
Marra, who had presented her own project on Wednesday that failed to reach committee, expressed her “deepest condemnation of the coup of 76, first historical antecedent September 6, 1930, which marked an unfortunate course of overthrows”. Furthermore, he lamented “the excesses of members of the Armed Forces who acted outside the rule of law, with the same rigor we condemn members of subversive groups responsible for a bloodbath without antecedents in our country”.
“The story must be fully told and advancing does not mean forgetting”, he added. Her partner subscribed to her words, Fleiteswho previously pointed out that “Argentines are indebted to history when we talk about the 70s.”It speaks of a part of historyintentionally selective”, and blamed “sectors that sought to build that story” for that.
“For decades, the possibility of making a plurality of stories visible has been denied, judicial justice has been only for one sector, while others have been relegated and forgotten,” argued Fleitas, who complained that the They will call themselves “deniers and fachos”.
For his part, García Moritán, husband of Carolina “Pampita” Ardohainwhat integrates the space of the national deputy López Murphy in CABAexplained his rejection: “We owe him loyalty to our voters from United Republicans and we also voted against.”
Voices in favor of the declarations
Within the speeches of the members of those fronts that voted in favor, the one of Victoria Montenegrodaughter of disappeared and legislator of front of allwho stated: “In Argentina there were not two demonsthere was a terrorist state that defined 30,000 people disappearing.” “No one has to go through the horror to which they subjected us again,” he added, vindicating the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.
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the socialist Roy Cortinawhich is part of Vamos Juntos, questioned the libertarians and said: “There was no bigger trample to the Liberty and human dignity than what happened in March 1976”. He also opined: “For those who claim to be liberals should read some more history books because revolutionary liberalism fought for cycles against the tyranny of states, of governments”.
Along the same lines, they manifested Diego Garcia de Garcia Vilasfrom Let’s go togetherand Claudio Morresithe front of allwho rejected the “theory that we have been insistently being told for so long, of the two demons”.
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