50th Anniversary 1976 Coup

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Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo honored with World Cup-inspired album

As Argentine children race to collect stickers and complete their 2026 Men’s Football World Cup albums ahead of the tournament that starts in...

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Institution key to finding babies stolen by dictatorship suffers 60% budget cut under Milei

President Javier Milei’s austerity policies have hit one of the main pillars in Argentina’s fight to find and identify those who were “disappeared”...

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Argentines call for memory, truth, and justice 50 years after the last military coup

Human rights organizations, unions, social groups, and hundreds of thousands of Argentines marched to the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the presidential...

argentines-call-for-memory,-truth-and-justice-50-years-since-the-last-military-coup

Argentines call for memory, truth and justice 50 years since the last military coup

Human rights organizations, unions, social groups and hundreds of thousands of Argentines marched to the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the presidential...

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The Abuelas created a movement. Their grandchildren are ready to carry the torch

It was April 1977 when the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, a group of women who were searching for their sons and daughters...

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The 1976 coup wasnt unprecedented. The brutality that followed made it a turning point

Gabriela Águila is a historian at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and CONICET specializing in the 1976-1983 dictatorship When the armed forces overthrew...

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Five numbers that show how the dictatorship affects Argentina to this day

Reporting by Veronica Smink and Juan Décima For most of the world, Argentina’s last dictatorship can seem like something from the distant past. ...

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The 1976 coup wasnt unprecedented. What followed made it a turning point

Gabriela Águila is a historian at the Universidad Nacional de Rosario and CONICET specializing in the 1976-1983 dictatorship When the armed forces overthrew...

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Tearing down the pact of silence remains the mission

Buenos Aires Herald editorial (versión en español a continuación) Fifty years after the 1976 coup that ushered in the most brutal dictatorship in...

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March 24, 1976: the day Argentinas darkest period began

It was the early hours of Wednesday, March 24, 1976. Outside, it was dark. Sunrise was still several hours away when the voice...