Memory, Truth and Justice: thousands of people mobilized in a new March 24

Within the framework of a new Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, which remembers the victims of State terrorism promoted by the civic-military dictatorship, which took power on March 24, 1976 and lasted until December 10, 1983, when Ricardo Alfonsín assumed the presidency by election of the people, An immense number of people and social organizations mobilized to reinforce, once again, the call for “Never Again.” Since Sunday morning, the streets were filled with people who came out to remember what happened at that time and repudiate the discourse that is promoted by the national government since the inauguration of Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel, which has to do with questioning the figure of the 30,000 disappeared. In fact, in the morning hours, the official account of the Casa Rosada shared a video that was narrated by Juan Bautista “Tata” Yofre, former head of the SIDE of the government of Carlos Menem, and where María Fernanda Viola, daughter of the soldier who was murdered by the People’s Revolutionary Army (ERP) in Tucumán and Luis Labraña, participated. former Montoneros militant, where it is argued that “the story was not told in a complete way”. In view of this, the president of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, Estela de Carlotto, said that “the constant provocations of the government of Milei and Villarruel violate all international pacts that have unconstitutional status,” and that the president “is a strange character. So, I say that, out there… Let’s do something to make it change or go away quickly, one of two things.” He also warned that they will continue to “demand a law against officials who dismiss crimes and their victims.” For her part, Taty Almeida, a member of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line, made it clear: “We have 30,000 reasons to defend the Homeland!”, and that “we see in the Milei government attitudes of extreme cruelty and violence towards those who think differently”. “This government has put in place a repressive protocol aimed at preventing the exercise of the legitimate right to social protest. Just as they did in the government of Mauricio Macri and Patricia Bullrich, the persecution and defamation of political and social opponents is once again a daily practice,” he added. In addition, Adolfo Pérez, human rights activist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, said during the main event: “Freedom Advances is advancing towards the precipice”, and that “we defend human rights, the construction of democracy and the constitution”.Photo: ReutersLater, Máximo Kirchner rejected the video published by the government by declaring that “from the first magistracy of the State, the Argentine tragedy is questioned. That is never good, there is a situation of contempt not only for the past, the tortures, but for the present for the people.” And, when asked about a peaceful future between the opposition and the ruling party, he replied: “How can I want to build an option with someone who defends the torturers and murderers of so many Argentines? And among them, the fathers and mothers of many of my colleagues. No, no, not by a beating.” The governor of the province of Buenos Aires, Axel Kicillof, said that “the example is to be in the square, they come to repress, we come to march for the future. We come to reaffirm that there were 30,000, for memory, truth and justice.” “It seems unbelievable that we have to discuss again those things that are an emblem in Argentina and are the central milestone on which Argentine democracy has been built in these 40 years after the dictatorship,” he added. Milei’s government is denialist and Patricia Bullrich vindicates the military. He has gone through so many political parties that we no longer know which one he belongs to, this mobilization is in repudiation of this policy of recession and layoffs,” said one of the leaders of the CGT, Pablo Moyano. “They want a labor reform so that there are no collective bargaining agreements,” he said. On the other hand, the Minister of Defense, Luis Petri, in a dialogue with Radio Rivadavia, pointed out that “discussing the number of disappeared does not contribute anything to the debate,” and stressed that “today we have to value the recovery and consolidation of democracy and condemn each and every one of the constitutional breakdowns that occurred in the country.” And, in the same vein as the government, the head of the Security portfolio, Patricia Bullrich, explained: “They built a narrative about the tragedy tailored to their ideological interests, regardless of the victims and the depth of the wounds. The change also comes in recognizing that a half-truth is not true.”

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