50 years after the coup, books, works and songs that demand Memory, Truth and Justice - Rolling Stone

[ElQueso]

https://es.rollingstone.com/arg-a-50-anos-del-golpe-libros-obras-y-canciones-que-reclaman-memoria-verdad-y-justicia/

 

[Content Provider]

My Argentine wife, who is the same age as myself, remembers the day of the coup very well.

 

[ElQueso]

My Argentine wife, who is the same age as myself, remembers the day of the coup very well.

What are her thoughts on all of that? Did she know anyone that was missing? Sad time for Argentina.

 

[BA Bound]

Terrible!

 

[Content Provider]

Sad time for Argentina.

Brought to Argentina by the USA.

 

[Content Provider]

What are her thoughts on all of that? Did she know anyone that was missing?

Obviously, she doesn't think much of "all of that". No, while she didn't know anyone personally that went missing, there were people in her barrio (neighborhood) that went missing. Coincidentally, she and I lived next door to the General of the Air Force. He lived next door to us before he died several years ago.

 

[BarryBloomWwf]

Brought to Argentina by the USA.

How do you figure that ?

 

[Content Provider]

How do you figure that ?

Ever hear of School of the Americas?

The United States was aware of—and quietly supported—Argentina’s 1976 military coup that removed President Isabel Perón on March 24. There is no evidence it directly orchestrated the takeover.

Key Contacts
U.S. officials, including Ambassador Robert Hill, met with senior officers such as Admiral Emilio Massera in the weeks before the coup. Massera signaled that the military was preparing to act. CIA Director George H.W. Bush also briefed President Gerald Ford on a potential coup nearly two weeks in advance.
(Source: U.S. National Security Archive, “Argentina Declassification Project”; CIA intelligence briefs, March 1976)

Tacit Endorsement
More than a month before the takeover, U.S. officials privately indicated they would recognize a new military government, despite internal State Department warnings about prolonged rule and repression. After the coup, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger urged Argentina’s foreign minister to move quickly against “terrorists” before U.S. congressional pressure on human rights increased.
(Source: National Security Archive, “Kissinger to Argentine Generals, 1976”; U.S. State Department cables, 1975–1976)

Broader Backing
Following the coup, the United States supported the junta through intelligence sharing, counterinsurgency training, and coordination tied to Operation Condor. These efforts, driven by Cold War fears of communism in Latin America, helped sustain the “Dirty War,” during which up to 30,000 people were killed or disappeared between 1976 and 1983. Declassified records show Washington viewed military rule as preferable to political instability under Perón.
(Source: J. Patrice McSherry, Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America; National Security Archive; U.S. Department of State Human Rights Reports)

More Sources

National Security Archive (George Washington University) – Argentina Declassification Project
J. Patrice McSherry, Predatory States
Carlos Osorio (ed.), U.S. Declassified Documents on Argentina
U.S. State Department cables (1975–1976)
CONADEP Report (Nunca Más, 1984)

 

[BarryBloomWwf]

In one post you say "Brought to Argentina by the USA"

In the next ... "There is no evidence it directly orchestrated the takeover."

Unfortunately it's been a very profitable business for South American leaders to pillage their country while telling the people everything is the fault of the USA. Leave your apartment without an umbrella and it starts to rain ? Uncle Sam up to his old tricks again

 

[Content Provider]

In one post you say "Brought to Argentina by the USA"

In the next ... "There is no evidence it directly orchestrated the takeover."

Unfortunately it's been a very profitable business for South American leaders to pillage their country while telling the people everything is the fault of the USA. Leave your apartment without an umbrella and it starts to rain ? Uncle Sam up to his old tricks again

Again, ever hear of the School of the Americas?

Your first two quotes do not negate each other.

 

[jbeas176]

i have argentine friend that said he lived through the military ocupation amd said he didn’t know the difference except it felt safer

 

[ElQueso]

i have argentine friend that said he lived through the military ocupation amd said he didn’t know the difference except it felt safer

Heard the same from a few people.

 

[Content Provider]

i have argentine friend that said he lived through the military ocupation amd said he didn’t know the difference except it felt safer

I'd bet there are about 30,000 familes who would disagree.

 

[Content Provider]

i have argentine friend that said he lived through the military ocupation amd said he didn’t know the difference except it felt safer

Oh wow, how lucky for him that he "felt safer" while approximately 30,000 people were being disappeared, tortured in secret detention centers, thrown from planes into the ocean, and having their babies stolen and given to regime loyalists. Truly, if you don't notice a genocide, did it even happen?

 

[jbeas176]

i am guessing but if you not protesting your not a target. oh well

 

[Content Provider]

i am guessing but if you not protesting your not a target. oh well

More than just 'protestors': Victims included armed guerrillas, but repression extended broadly to anyone suspected of leftist sympathies.

• Young students, trade unionists, and professionals involved in left-wing organizations.
• Intellectuals, journalists, priests, and moderate Peronists.
• Relatives of the disappeared, with an estimated 10,000-30,000 total victims, many via abductions, torture, and death flights.

 

[jbeas176]

maybe they prosted for the peron government

 

[Content Provider]

maybe they prosted for the peron government

Have you ever been to ESMA? If not, I encourage you to visit.

 

[jbeas176]

content provider those are numbers. we weren’t there. maybe just maybe the usa was trying to stabilize the argentine peoples lifes. if you can tell me what life was like the peron government. by the way i don’t think the usa gov doesn’t do anything with out a motive. john perkins confessions of an economic hitman. not trying to be adversarial

 

[Content Provider]

maybe just maybe the usa was trying to stabilize the argentine peoples lifes.

That's funny. Naive as hell, but funny. I guess maybe I should believe that Amerikkka was just trying to 'stabilize' the lives of the Vietnamese and the rest of the people around the world that we disrupted?