00:00Let's now go live in Argentina with our correspondent Medellino Santos for more updates on this important match that is
00:06going to take place in the capital of Argentina and everything that is revolving around this important commemoration of the
00:1350th anniversary as people remember the truth and the memory.
00:16Welcome Belen, what can you tell us?
00:19Hello Luis, how are you? Such a pleasure to join you here from Buenos Aires, Argentina, particularly from the Avenue
00:28Nuevo de Julio.
00:29We're just blocks away both from Argentina's Congress Square and from Plaza de Mayo, both main sites for today's demonstration
00:38here in the capital city.
00:39Let's recall that activities are happening across the country.
00:43This is one of the most important days in general for the Argentine year and in particular this 2026 because
00:52Argentines are commemorating 50 years since that coup de tab,
00:57a terrible moment that opened one of the most violent periods of Argentine history, a period of political persecution,
01:06a period in which the political, economic, military, and civic elites of the country carried out a process that left
01:1530,000 comrades disappear, a systematic plan of terror.
01:21And that is why every year on this date Argentinians go out to the streets massively across the country in
01:30order to, back to the topic, also conclude, exercise,
01:35the demand for memory, truth, and justice.
01:39That is what is happening today, as you can see, maybe behind me and from today, we are hours away
01:48from the main event, the main documents that position the organizations on such a day that are always so many
01:57political positionings regarding the actual context.
02:01Well, that is going to happen after 4 p.m. in the afternoon.
02:05We're hours away from that, but people are already arriving.
02:08This is a day-long mobilization, and what we're seeing here are political organizations that are coming, cultural movements that
02:17are rehearsing, that are arriving,
02:19and are already beginning to fill the streets that go from the Congress Square to Plaza de Mayo.
02:26Also, for whoever hasn't been in Argentina for March 24th, March, this is a great festival,
02:36a great moment of people coming together in rejection of that period, but also in defense of that generation that
02:46was severely attacked at that moment and that dreamt of a better world for Argentina, for the continent, and the
02:54world in general.
02:55And it's also a day of struggle, of remembering those same goals and maintaining and maintaining and continuing the struggle.
03:03That's why the importance of mothers of Plaza de Mayo, of grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, of sons and daughters
03:09that have continued that movement and maintained the active claim for memory, truth, and justice.
03:18Also, one of the things that you were just saying, this is happening at a very significant moment.
03:24The government of Javier Mille has gone against everything that this generation that was attacked in 1976 went for and
03:33dreamed of.
03:34He has attacked the movements of human rights.
03:37He has attacked every claim of memory, truth, and justice, even the trials that were held against the military coups
03:46and those who led that military junta and made them accountable for their crimes.
03:53Mille's government has gone against all that movement of accountability.
03:59And also, he's trying to implement the same economic policies and economic order that that coup d'etat implemented in
04:071976.
04:09So, the exercise, when we say that memory in Argentina, it's not just remembering the past.
04:15It's an active struggle for the present.
04:18And making that dialogue between what happened at that moment and what continues to happen today.
04:24That is why, when you see the organizations on the streets, you're going to see signs against the government of
04:30Javier Mille, against the IMS, against the implementation of neoliberal policies.
04:35It's not separate, different matters.
04:39It's one same claim for memory, truth, justice, and also the continuation of that struggle for a better world.
04:47So, we continue here.
04:49We'll be here the entire day.
04:51It's an important day in Argentina.
04:53Luis, I go back to you.
04:55We'll have more throughout the day.
04:57Thank you, Belen.
04:58We're going to stay tuned to have all that information of this important day that is taking place in Argentina.
05:03Also, we'll have more information across the week as celebrations and events are going to be held.
05:08For now, let's continue.
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