By Bill Hackwell on March 23, 2025
March 24, 2021, 45 years after the genocidal coup, we plant Memory for the 30,000
Tomorrow marks the 49th anniversary of the cruel and criminal military takeover of Argentina that resulted in 30,000 people being detained and disappeared, thousands of political prisoners and hundreds of thousands of exiles.
Alicia Jrapko, the founder and editor of Resumen Latinoamericano in the US was one of those exiles who fled for their lives in 1976. For us, this makes tomorrow, the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice in Argentina, of particular significance as we join in solidarity with tens of thousands of people who will be in the streets of the cities and towns of Argentina insisting that the memory of the victims of those years of state terror, during the “Dirty War”, are never erased.
March 23, 2025
Tomorrow the Argentine people will not just be in the streets to honor that horrible period of time of the US backed military dictatorship but also to advance the struggle against the current nightmare government of Javier Milei who while beating pensioners in the streets for protesting against starvation stipends is economically devastating the country and aligning its foreign policy slavishly to Donald Trump and the war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu.
On March 24, 2021, the last anniversary she commemorated, Alicia and 2 of her grandchildren planted a small tree in our back yard to honor the memory of those who were victims in her homeland including close friends who one day were dragged out of their homes never to be seen again.
Today that tree continues to grow as does the resistance movements of the peoples from Argentina to Cuba to Palestine and around the world.
Source: Resumen Latinoamericano in English