News of memory

Milei vs the Music: Free Milo J show at ex-ESMA blocked

13-02-2025 16:48 National government blocks performance by chart-topping star at ex-ESMA clandestine detention centre, prompting anger from artist’s camp.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Documentary brings dictatorship 'death flights' trauma to big screen

20-09-2024 16:44 Director Nicolás Gil Lavedra premieres new film 'Traslados,' an investigative documentary on a very dark chapter of the nation’s not-too-distant history: the “death flights” carried out by the 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

24 de MARZO

Milei government casts doubt over dictatorship crimes

24-03-2024 18:49 Milei administration echoes vice-president's line, demanding justice for "the victims of terrorism" during military dictatorship era and questioning 30,000 disappeared estimate from human rights groups.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Argentines send message with march in memory of dictatorship

24-03-2024 17:03 Huge crowds head to Plaza de Mayo to mark the 48th anniversary of the coup d'état that brought Argentina’s brutal 1976-1983 military dictatorship to power, resulting in the disappearance, exile and execution of tens of thousands of people in secret death camps across the country.

National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice

Milei set to stoke controversy with 'complete memory' March 24 video

23-03-2024 12:08 The video has been left in charge of libertarian documentarist Santiago Oria and former guerrilla fighter Luis Labraña, former head of the SIDE intelligence service, Juan Bautista “Tata” Yofre, and relatives of the former captain Humberto Viola were all involved.

GUEST COLUMN

Purim and the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice

22-03-2024 00:01 Argentina’s National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice is to be commemorated on the same day that we observe and celebrate Purim in the Hebrew calendar.

by Batia D. de Nemirovsky & Ariel Gelblung *

HUMAN RIGHTS

CELS rights group proposes 'Pact of March' to protect democracy

20-03-2024 16:31 Influential rights NGO criticises “denialism” warns against incorporation of military officers into government and calls for cross-party ‘Pacto de Marzo’ to guarantee rights and democracy.

by Ariel Maciel

HUMAN RIGHTS

Victoria Villarruel criticises ESMA dictatorship world heritage site

14-11-2023 13:55 Far-right vice-presidential candidate Victoria Villarruel suggests ESMA memory site, once home to detention and extermination camp, should be turned into a school; Javier Milei’s running-mate alleges widespread corruption in government’s human rights policies.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hell becomes heritage: UNESCO honours ex-ESMA detention centre

19-09-2023 15:51 An exercise in memory without hatred has turned the former ESMA Navy Mechanics School, the largest torture and extermination centre during the last military dictatorship’s rein of terror, into a cultural space that hurts but aspires to heal.

HUMAN RIGHTS

UNESCO strives to ensure memory remains part of global heritage

19-09-2023 13:11 While UNESCO has universalist aspirations, memorials are ripe for appropriation for political causes – especially where they touch on bloody events of the past.

EDITORIAL

Is no memory sacred?

25-03-2023 06:00 Despite the increasing distance from the 1976 military coup on its 47th anniversary, Memory Day cannot be consigned to the past because it is all about impunity, which also belongs to the present and future. v

HUMAN RIGHTS

'Never again': Demonstrators rally on dictatorship coup anniversary

24-03-2023 19:16 Tens of thousands of people marched on Friday on the 47th anniversary of the 1976 military coup d'état, marking Argentina's National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice.