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Milei shuts down museums memorializing victims of Argentine dictatorship
Argentina’s fascist President Milei seeks to erase the record of torture, disappearances and murder of tens of thousands of militant workers and youth.
Following the 1976 military coup, the armed forces and police, backed by the CIA and US imperialism, launched an all-out “dirty-war” of torture and mass murder against leftists, in the the so-called Proceso de Reorganización Nacional(Process of National Reorganization). When it came to power in December 2023, the Milei government began shutting down these sites and firing the workers, including the establishments operating in the former Mechanical Navy School (ESMA), and the Virrey Cevallos (Air Force) extermination and torture centers, as well as the Olimpo (Federal Police) concentration camp, in Greater Buenos Aires, and the Navy Light House ( El Faro) detention center in the city of Mar del Plata. Like the other, larger, Sites of Memory, Virrey Ceballos was a center of community, educational and fund-raising activities, in part to support the sacked employees.
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