00:15In Argentina, citizens marked over the week the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup d'etat which
00:21brought about a bloody civil military dictatorship. Rallies and numerous other events were held over
00:26the week to keep the memory of victims alive. Our correspondent, Veneno de los Santos, has the
00:30details. Hello, studios. How are you once again here from Buenos Aires? The final day of such an
00:38important week in which we have been following all the claims of truth, memory, and justice,
00:44the mass mobilization we saw on Tuesday, and also all the different acts in which Argentinians,
00:51in small or bigger ways, they continue to exercise memory, linking the present to the past,
00:58understanding the devastating consequences of that violent dictatorship that started in 1976,
01:07and targeting the working class, and particularly class solidarity, union workers, and try to crush
01:14all the leftist hopes of a complete generation. But despite those attempts, the struggle has
01:21continued and is very much alive. And that is what those million people that came out in Buenos Aires
01:28and also across the country represents, the continuity of that struggle. We are in Palermo at
01:35this moment. We have been seeing over the week how memory is exercised not only in one day in the
01:41massive demonstration of March 24th, but also in different symbolic acts. In schools, for example,
01:49in the architecture where the buildings and streets of Buenos Aires and other cities are marked by plagues
01:56that signal, for example, where those comrades that were kidnapped and disappeared used to live,
02:03or where they were intercepted by the military forces. Right where I am right now, just meters away,
02:10there is a plague of two comrades that were kidnapped, illegally kidnapped, and later disappeared,
02:17just as a way, a symbolism to represent those who were disappeared, but are still very much present
02:25in the struggle of Argentines that are continuing those acts and that are continuing those demands of
02:33truth, truth, memory, and justice. Also, another event that are taking place, both yesterday, Thursday,
02:39and today, Friday, different universities here are holding specific acts of theater plays that are linked
02:48to that exercise of memory. In this case, we're talking about the University of Buenos Aires and the faculty
02:54of both social sciences and also philosophy and literature as well, and these different acts. We have been talking yesterday
03:04as well as of the importance of the student movement in this continuation of the struggle, both in the 70s
03:11and in the present. That is another way in which culture and the student community come together to continue to
03:18exercise memory.
03:19So, that is a little bit of what is happening here. We continue in this week of remembrance, in this
03:26week of asking for truth, memory, and justice, and bringing a little bit of what that means here in Argentina.
03:33For now, I go back to you.
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