00:00And the civic military dictatorship left thousands dead and missing.
00:04Those who managed to go into exile were able to survive.
00:07Our correspondent Fabián Restivo made with some of the survivors to learn more of that dark period in Argentine history.
00:13The civic military dictatorship in Argentina left thousands dead and missing, and a few survivors.
00:20Carlos Girotti, a science and technology worker, is one of them.
00:24Despite being one of the ten most wanted by the dictatorship, he survived.
00:30I was an union representative for a metal working factory, a large metal working factory in the greater Buenos Aires
00:37area.
00:37They came to pick me up at the factory. I didn't even know about it.
00:42I found out later from a college who was in prison, who had in turn interrogated the informant,
00:48who was collaborating with the military, and well, shortly after that, the coup took place.
00:55I went underground because they were lurking around my family's house, and eventually I was able to go into exile.
01:04The territorial expansion involved several stops, all by land, while maintaining the cautions required by their covert nature.
01:12The first stop was in Uruguay. The second stop was in Brazil. There the situation was very critical because military
01:19forces from both countries, both dictatorships, were already operating there.
01:25Plan Condor was already on their way, both in Brazil and in Argentina.
01:29The difference in Argentina is that many people were involved. It wasn't a relatively isolated incident or one that involved
01:38just a few dozen people. It involved thousands of people.
01:43That forced Girotti and his family, along with other fellow travelers, to flee for their life, putting an entire ocean
01:50between them and danger.
01:51In February 1977, we managed to leave Brazil and head for the Netherlands.
01:58Girotti highlights one of the factors, among others, through which the dictatorship managed to divide the country and its people.
02:05The first factor is the presence of state-sponsored terrorists under the military dictatorship, a regime that was civilian military
02:13and religious in nature,
02:14at which committed genocide to radically altering the power structures that had existed in Argentina up until that point.
02:22As a survivor, Carlos, at the age of 75, recognized that we now live in an era of greater rights.
02:30The three Kirchner administration, those of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, represented, in my opinion, the period of
02:39greatest expansion of democracy since the dictatorship.
02:43And from that history, how did we get here? What happened after the Kirchners?
02:51There is a kind of retreat, a turning away from the historic banners that made Peronines the curse factor of
02:57the various countries.
03:01At times, it seems as if everything is proceeding as usual. The Argentine for Rixi anthropology team continues to identify
03:07bodies.
03:09We continue to work to identify as many victims of the death flights as possible. As of today, there are
03:15approximately 40 people who have been identified as victims of the death flights.
03:20And the militant activist continues to think strategically about the future.
03:28The task now is to confirm the Millay government, organize the unorganized resistance, make it more organized, and revolutionize politics.
03:38But what does it mean to revolutionize politics under current conditions?
03:48Revolutionizing politics means putting action before ideas.
03:51Revolutionizing politics is what Father Paco Leida does, who joins the retards every Wednesday, giving a quarter and asking for
03:58none.
03:59With his chest bar, revolutionizing politics means making way for a new generation of activists.
04:05It's unacceptable to Argentina's social representation to be outdated.
04:09Comprised mainly of elderly, it's essential to revolutionize politics in the sense of restoring the role of youth and building
04:16revolutionary mythology
04:18that force neo-colonialists to confront a different kind of discourse.
04:23Not the discourse that assumes politics is about holding a seat in Parliament.
04:27It's something that means that politics is to occupy a seat in Parliament.
04:31From Buenos Aires, for Telesur, Fabián Restivo.
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