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Our correspondent in Buenos Aires, Belen de los Angeles, interviews Argentines on the streets in the framework of the commemoration of the national Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.

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00:00Let's now go with our correspondent in Argentina Belen de los Santos to have first-hand information

00:04coming from the streets of Buenos Aires. Welcome Belen, what can you tell us?

00:10Hello studios, once again we continue here downtown Buenos Aires. We're just

00:15one block away from Plaza de Mayo, the epicenter of this great mobilization. March 24th we've said

00:23the importance, the relevance of this day to Argentinians and also in the continent in which

00:29we commemorate but also denounce the coup d'etat that took place in 1976, all its crimes. But also

00:36something very important to keep in mind is that besides being just a political act of memory

00:42for Argentinians this day of truth, memory and justice, it's also a political struggle that has

00:49to do with the present and the present context. And Argentina is living a very particular scene

00:56with the Malays government, with Malays repressive policies that are targeting

01:00the working class very much like they did so in the civil military dictatorship that started that

01:061976. So we are talking to some of the people that came to participate to this march, this

01:13very significant march that is about to be maybe one of the most significant in terms of participation

01:20and Amita Edwag is a worker student and has come here to participate one more year. I wanted to ask

01:27you why is it important to come here and what is the significance of this day in this repressive

01:34context that Argentina is living? It is very important to be here always because this is the

01:40way we keep the memory alive of these events, these horrible events that happened in this country.

01:47But this year is especially important for two reasons. One is the political context in the

01:53whole world of fascism, especially in this country where the crimes of the dictatorship that happened

01:59here are being negated in this whole continent actually. This is a special moment for us, this

02:05is the reason why the two marches of this country are for the first time in 20 years uniting for

02:12one political response. It is important that we show that we are united even if we come from

02:19different political fronts. It is very important that we show the government we are united, we

02:27remember and we will keep remembering these events and they can't negate what happened here.

02:34And so we were talking before about the significance of unity in this march. Both

02:41acts are coming together, it's taking place just one block from where we are right now. The main

02:47act of this March 24th in which Argentinians come together to say that this level of state

02:54terrorism and state violence against any political opposition will happen never again in Argentina.

03:00We go back to you in studios and we will continue reporting as this day progresses.

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