On the anniversary of the 1976 military coup, Argentines push back against leaders revising history
As Argentina on Sunday marked the most traumatic date in its modern history — the 1976 military coup that ushered in a brutal dictatorship — President Javier Milei posted a startling video that demanded justice. Not for those who suffered repression under the junta, but for those victims of leftist guerrillas before the putsch.
Milei posted the video as tens of thousands of protesters, raising banners vowing “Nunca Mas,” or never again, filled downtown Buenos Aires to commemorate the 48th anniversary of the coup and the seven years that followed when as many as 30,000 people were killed or forcibly disappeared in a systematic campaign that still haunts the country.
The video by the president, a far-right economist who took
