A Day of Memory for Truth and Justice
Today over 100 human rights, student, cultural and labour organisations, marched along Avenida de Mayo to Plaza de Mayo to commemorate ‘El Día de la Memoria’, a day of memory to remember the 30,000...
View ArticleChile: Minister Intends to “Leave Behind” the Day of the Young Soldier
Chilean Minister of Interior and Public Security, Rodrigo Hinzpeter, said the Day of the Young Combatant “should begin leaving itsself behind”. Relatives of the politically executed repudiated the...
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Memory on a Monday: Teatro x la Identidad
For years, the banging of drums, hauling of banners and marching feet of thousands have stepped their way across the famous Plaza de Mayo square in the centre of Buenos Aires. Nunca Mas banner from día...
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Thirty years after Teatro Abierto
'Decir Si', the play by Griselda Gambaro performed in 1981 (Photo: Julie Weisz) “If they will not stage our plays in the official theatres,” Argentine playwright Robert “Tito” Cossa wrote in a 1981...
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Top 5 Nostalgic Nights
What does midnight look like in the Paris of South America? For those of us cursed with a golden-age mentality, Buenos Aires can be a reprieve from all the baggage that comes with modern reality. This...
View ArticleVIDEO: The Malvinas Brand
Jorge Santander investigates the phenomenon of renaming public spaces ‘Malvinas Argentinas’ since the 1982 war, and wonders what impact this has on society’s, and especially war veterans’, view of the...
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Why We Should Stop Calling it Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’
As we approach the 40th anniversary of the last military coup on 24th March, 1976, there have been several breakthroughs in the long campaign for memory, truth, and justice. Last week, US National...
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