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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">Argentina: Massive Demonstration Commemorates the 1976 Coup and Say No to Milei’s Rewriting of History</h1>
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<p>By Bill Hackwell on March 24, 2024 from Buenos Aires</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_26264" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/b_0752.jpg?ssl=1"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26264" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/b_0752.jpg?resize=258%2C300&ssl=1" alt="" width="258" height="300" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></a></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-26264" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">30,000 Alive in Truth! photo: Bill Hackwell</p></div>
<p>Hundreds of thousands are still in the streets here that lead to the
Casa Rosada, Argentina’s presidential palace. For the last 43 years
March 24, has been referred to as the National Day of Memory in
Argentina marking the beginning of the 1976 military coup that
disappeared, tortured and murdered at least 30,000 people.<span id="gmail-more-26263"></span></p>
<p>This year it takes on new meaning. The right wing coup-denier Javier
Milei became president in December 2023 bringing with him a plan of neo
liberal austerity that has the blessings of the International Monetary
Fund.</p>
<p>Milei has gone to great lengths to say that nearly 30,000 were not
killed and that in the 70’s there was a war where perhaps “there were a
few excesses”. Milei’s vice president Victoria Villarruel has gone even
further in the denial by reframing the dictatorship as “a war” between
“terrorists” and the armed forces.</p>
<p>In Milei’s circle an idea is now being floated to call for the
release of some of the imprisoned generals as if they, the perpetrators
of the reign of terror and torture that went from 1976 – 1983, were also
victims. This morning the government released videos of sympathetic
interviews with the families of the jailed generals attempting to
preempt the focus of the march and to start a new thread of fake news.
Meanwhile Milei’s Administration has nearly eliminated funding for the
department established to pursue crimes against humanity and the
preservation of the collective memory of that dark period.</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_26265" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/arg-1.jpg?ssl=1"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26265" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/arg-1.jpg?resize=300%2C222&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="222" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></a></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-26265" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">photo: Bill Hackwell</p></div>
<p>Suffering and the terror of the dictatorship, and its crimes against
humanity are real and continues in nearly every family you meet in
Argentina. The courageous Mothers of Plaza de Mayo started that trail of
searching for their sons and daughters, demonstrating every week in the
Plaza in front of the Casa Rosada even when public meetings were
illegal. And that struggle continues today in the militant organization
H.I.J.O.S., the sons, daughters and now grandchildren who carry on the
struggle for accountability and to ensure it will never happen again.</p>
<p>Milei knows that. In an ominous sign of the acts that preceded the
coup, he is standing by without comment about a vicious organized attack
on a young woman of H.I.J.O.S. in her home last week. Perpetrators beat
and sexually assaulted her warning that they did not come to rob her
but to kill her. They left Milei slogans written on the wall.</p>
<div id="gmail-attachment_26266" class="gmail-wp-caption"><p><a href="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/b_6871-scaled.jpg?ssl=1"><img aria-describedby="caption-attachment-26266" src="https://i0.wp.com/resumen-english.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/b_6871.jpg?resize=300%2C207&ssl=1" alt="" width="300" height="207" class="gmail-moz-reader-block-img"></a></p><p id="gmail-caption-attachment-26266" class="gmail-wp-caption-text">H.I.J.O.S, photo: Bill Hackwell</p></div>
<p>The real danger is that Milei’s denialism is transforming to a
justification for the dictatorship and the genocide that prevailed after
the coup. It is an attempt to wipe out the collective memory and
replace it with doubt. It is also a distraction from the serious
problems many Argentinians are facing at this moment. Even more than his
authoritarianism, are the results of Milei’s economic measures that
have impoverished the middle classes and pushed millions of poor people
to inhuman survival conditions. The most serious problem is that
inflation has doubled with this government, which has been particularly
difficult in the provinces and is destroying public health and
education.</p>
<p>While Melei was hoping for a demoralized, distracted and smaller
March 24 demonstration this year, it was not to be, instead the turnout
in Buenos Aires today was large, broad across sectors and determined.</p>
<p>Source: Resumen Latinoamericano – US</p>
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