Argentina commemorates national Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice

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Under the slogan “Never Again”, massive mobilizations have taken place across Buenos Aires to commemorate the Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice, 49 years after the 1976 civil-military coup d'état.

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00:00Hello and join us as we follow all the information coming from Argentina on the Day of Remembrance

00:10for the Truths and Justice.

00:12That's why we make a live contact with our correspondent Belén de los Santos, live from

00:17the streets of Buenos Aires.

00:19Hi Bel, what can you share with us at this hour?

00:22Hello Ale, exactly, I'm joining you from Buenos Aires this time at this very important

00:31day as it's March 24th for all Argentinians, the Day of Truth, Memory and Justice in which

00:37we commemorate and denounce the coup d'etat that took place in 1976, a day like today

00:44and also took place until 1983 among its very terrible crimes were the kidnapping, the torture

00:51and then disappearance of 30,000 comrades, also the appropriation of hundreds of its

00:58children that until today the organizations of human rights continue to fight to recover

01:04and reinstate their identity.

01:07This is a very significant day as we were saying and every March 24th Argentinians gather

01:12around the country but specifically here in the capital city of Buenos Aires.

01:16We are now standing at the very beginning of one of the marches, there are several complications

01:22but they are all heading towards just a few blocks away from here to the Mayo Square,

01:29the Plaza de Mayo here we call it, right in front of the government seats where all the

01:35marches will gather together at a central act at around 4.30 p.m. local time.

01:42This is a very significant event because after almost 20 years there is just one central

01:48act this day and the central key point of this act is to denounce the reality that this

01:56was a genocide that happened in 1976 that started with that coup and went into 1983

02:04and it's important to highlight that there's going to be just this one act because it speaks

02:11to the unity and the importance in this situation that Argentina is going through that everyone

02:18is coming together to really defend the memory, the truth but also the necessity to continue

02:26the struggle, to continue the protest and to really say that this will never happen

02:30again in our democracy in Argentina so we will continue bringing you all the latest

02:35updates.

02:36We are heading right now to Mayo Square, to Plaza de Mayo where the central act is going

02:41to take place so we will be bringing you all the information this is all just for now.

02:48Thank you Will, thank you.

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