00:14In Argentina citizens mark over the week the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup d'etat which
00:20brought about a bloody civic military dictatorship rallies and numerous other events are planned
00:26over the week to keep the memory of victims alive and precisely in this context we are going to make
00:32a call now a live contact with our correspondent in Argentina Belen de los Santos hello Belen
00:37what can you share with us here now once again from Buenos Aires it's late at night but we
00:44continue going through the city to bring a little bit more of what it means to go through this week
00:52up memory truth and justice here in Argentina we've been bringing different stories around
00:58the city and right now I'm standing in the neighborhood of Palermo behind me it's a
01:04school and the name of the public school here in Buenos Aires is Claudia Maria Falcone the school
01:11is named after one of the girls that once disappeared and tortured killed by the last
01:20civic military dictatorship and I say girl because she was barely 16 years old we're talking about
01:28a girl that participated in one of the most terrific moments of the last civic military dictatorship
01:35in Spanish it's called as the la noche de los lapices in English it's the night of the pencils
01:41let me tell you a little bit about that story there was a group of students not here in Buenos
01:47Aires
01:47but in La Plata nearby city actually the capital of the province of Buenos Aires that was a group of
01:55activists but students of secondary school that were demanding they have been for months and since
02:02the last year before the who actually happened demanding for a ticket for students so that students
02:09could afford their tickets to ride back and forth from school well that group of students was
02:17persecuted at the moment and after the military coup was carried out months after actually in September
02:24of 1976 in one night they were all 10 students were kidnapped and many of them would go on to
02:35be
02:35disappeared some of them survived to tell the story we are talking about a group of kids that went just
02:43from
02:4316 to 18 years of age those were the kind of kids in part that were targeted by this civic
02:51military dictatorship and this group of kids that were fighting for to in order to have access for their bus
02:59tickets to go back and forth from school they were fighting for their classmates as well to be able to
03:05afford to go to their education and they were targeted as and perceived as a threat by the
03:13this military dictatorship civic and military dictatorship that target any sort of activism as a possible threat against the established
03:23order of course because there was a moment in which the social class and the world's been class was beginning
03:29to stand up against the order that systematically impoverished part of the social class and that was the targets that
03:39were mostly persecuted so we're speaking about the students
03:43one of the student sector one of the student sector one of the sectors persecuted by the last civic military
03:47dictatorship that is the story of the night of the pencils in Argentina
03:52la noche de los lapices and the school that i'm here right now takes her name the name of maria
03:58claudia falcone as a commemoration there's a plague on the ground as there are many around the city many for
04:06example marking the places where many of the comrades that were kidnapped and disappeared used to live or where they
04:13were kidnapped it's just ways in which society maintains their stories alive maintains them present in the for example
04:22just in the architecture of the city around of course we're talking about Buenos Aires but the same can be
04:29said by of many cities around the country in this case a school that every day with its name and
04:36of course as the last one that we saw also is filled with signs that have commemorations and slogans in
04:44reference to the week that we are we are in right now just a way of keeping that memory active
04:51in
04:52in this case from the school claudia maria falcone here in Buenos Aires just another way of understanding what happened
04:59then and how that same class the students in this case remember the disappeared students of that moment that is
05:07the link between the present and past that is the idea of truth memory and justice in this week
05:14the 50th anniversary after the coup d'etat that opened that terrible period in 1976 that is all for today
05:23Ale but we will continue going through more stories so much to learn from history and so much to learn
05:30for this present in Argentina and that is what this week is all about for now I go back to
05:35you Ale
05:36Ale thank you very much thank you for all of your insights in the midst of this remarkable moment for
05:42Argentinians and Latin America as a whole as well and after this contact with our correspondent in Argentina we go
05:50now to Bolivia's Drivers Union reject
05:53you
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