Argentina to Mark 40th Anniversary of Dictatorship with Protest

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2. Thank you for this timely post, Judi. A somber anniversary indeed.

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Here's a fragment from an Argentine documentary with scenes from the morning of the coup (March 24, 1976), during the first minute or so in the footage.

The narration is in Spanish; but you get a good sense of the daze that was said to prevail among the public in general that day. Little did people know.

Argentina, you see, had had four military coups already by then (1930, 1943, 1955, and 1966); but none of those military regimes came even close in their brutality and economic destructiveness as this one did.

Thanks again.