00:01In this context of memories, truth, and justice, let's go live with our correspondent Medellino de los Santos in Argentina,
00:06Buenos Aires, for all the information of this important week in the South American nation. Welcome, Belén, to From the
00:11South.
00:14Hello, Henry. It's such a pleasure to meet you. From here, as you were saying, we're just going around Buenos
00:20Aires and trying to capture some of the key places and key aspects to understand the importance of this week.
00:27Of course, we were there for the great, massive demonstration of Tuesday, March 24th.
00:33But you know that this period in Argentina speaks to a lot of different aspects.
00:38You were just seeing and talking about the number of exiles that had to leave the country and those particular
00:45experiences.
00:46There's also the narrative of the government, the current government, that is going against the narrative of the human rights
00:54organizations that are recognized worldwide.
00:57And even though that is a fact, well, the government is trying to counter that narrative regarding what has been
01:04proven to be a systematic plan of discrimination, of violence against its own population.
01:11That is what we know about this period, inaugurated with the coup d'etat in 1976.
01:17I have now another aspect of this moment to talk about.
01:21We are in Buenos Aires at what has been called for a few months now as the Chaligaracia coroner here
01:30in the city.
01:30That is, the door that's right behind me, it's the place where Chaligaracia, a famous songwriter and singer in Argentina
01:40lives.
01:41And as a tribute to him, he continues to live in that building right where I am right now.
01:47The coroner has the name following his name.
01:51And we're bringing to this place in particular to understand how culture has also played a part in memory in
01:59Argentina.
02:01Chaligaracia, who already was a famous and important songwriter during the 70s and 80s in particular,
02:09has written many songs alluding to the period of the civic military dictatorship.
02:16And some of those were key in the resistance process.
02:22While that coup d'etat, while that military dictatorship was still going on with such a violent persecution
02:28that also targeted artists, for example, and other figures of the cultural world.
02:35Well, different forms of art were key to, in an indirect way, maintain the denunciations,
02:44maintain the criticism of what was going on, the power of art, of being able to say what, in other
02:51words,
02:52could not be spoken at that time of severe persecution.
02:55That was the case of Chaligaracia.
02:57It's the case, for example, of his iconic song, Los Dinosaurios, or The Dinosaurs,
03:04that indirectly refers to the military coup, the military leaders that were leading society at that moment,
03:13with such violent persecution of the comrades that were fighting at that moment,
03:20fighting for a better world in Argentina and in the world in general.
03:25And that was a key song at that moment.
03:29And also, it continued to be a symbol of resistance,
03:33a symbol of how culture can maintain that memory alive.
03:39As usual, on March 24th, that song, The Dinosaurs, Los Dinosaurios,
03:44we heard it at Mayo Square last Tuesday.
03:48It's always a very emotional moment, because we grew up listening to that song.
03:54And it was, for many of us, the first instance of understanding what happened during the 70s and 80s,
04:01and why that was such an important moment to understand, to continue to denounce, and to keep memory alive.
04:09So that is a little bit of what is happening here.
04:11We will continue going around Buenos Aires, telling you a little bit of these stories.
04:16Luis, for now, I go back to you.
04:19Thank you, Belen, for the detailed information on everything that is taking place all these days across the nation, across
04:25Argentina.
04:26We'll stay tuned.
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