00:00We go to Argentina. Citizens mark over the week the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup d'etat which brought
00:07about a bloody civic military dictatorship.
00:10Rallies and numerous other events are planned over the week to keep the memory of victims alive.
00:16And precisely in this context our correspondent Belén de los Santos, she's there, she's in Argentina and she has more
00:22details on this celebration.
00:23Let's see.
00:53The devastating consequences of that violent dictatorship that started in 1976 and targeting the working class and particularly class solidarity,
01:06union workers and try to crush all the leftist hopes of a complete generation.
01:12But despite those attempts the struggle has continued and is very much alive and that is what those million people
01:21that came out in Buenos Aires and also across the country represents the continuity of that struggle.
01:28We are in Palermo at this moment. We have been seeing over the week how memory is exercised not only
01:34in one day in the massive demonstration of March 24th but also in different symbolic acts.
01:41In schools for example in the architecture where the buildings and streets of Buenos Aires and other cities are marked
01:50by plagues that signal for example where those comrades that were kidnapped and disappeared is to live or where they
01:58were intercepted by the military forces.
02:01Right where I am right now just meters away there is a plague of two comrades that were kidnapped and
02:11later disappeared just as a way, a symbolism to represent those who were disappeared but are still very much present
02:20in the struggle of Argentines that are continuing those acts and that are continuing those demands of truth, memory and
02:28justice.
02:29Also another events that are also another events that are taking place both yesterday, Thursday and today, Friday, different universities
02:36here are holding specific acts of theatre plays that are linked to that exercise of memory in this case we
02:46were talking about the University of Buenos Aires and the faculty of both social sciences and also philosophy and literature
02:54as well and this different acts we have been talking yesterday as well
02:58as of the importance of the importance of the importance of the student movement in this continuation of the struggle
03:04both in the 70s and in the present that is another way in which culture and the student community come
03:11together to continue to exercise memory.
03:14So that is a little bit of what is happening here we continue in this week of remembrance in this
03:20week of asking for truth, memory and justice and bringing a little bit of what that means here in Argentina.
03:27For now, I go back to music.
03:31For now, I go back to music.
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