excerpt - It has been fifty years since the coup d’état of 24 March 1976, one of the most tragic chapters in Argentina’s recent history: a dictatorship that combined state terrorism with a structural transformation of its economy. Throughout the 20th century, the country experienced six interruptions of its democratic order—in 1930, 1943, 1955, 1962, 1966, and 1976—but the last coup ushered in the most violent cycle. In coordination with other dictatorships in the Southern Cone and with the backing of the United States government, the military regime carried out a systematic plan of repression, disappearance, and social discipline.
The figures serve to illustrate the magnitude of the horror: 30,000 disappeared persons, more than 900 clandestine detention, torture, and extermination centers, around 500 appropriated infants, and nearly half a million exiles. Far from being isolated excesses, these crimes constituted a deliberate state policy. They were not deviations from a system, but its language. Violence was not an excess; it was the method. Repression was coordinated on a regional scale through Operation Condor, which integrated Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay, and Bolivia into a system of transnational persecution. Violence did not merely seek to eliminate opponents: it aimed to dismantle social organizations, weaken the capacity for collective resistance, and impose a new order. The dictatorship did not merely shut down democracy: it reconfigured the country’s productive structure. The objective was to replace an industrial model oriented toward the domestic market with one based on financial speculation, external openness, and indebtedness. full article - *https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/03/fifty-years-since-argentinas-darkest-night/ <https://www.counterpunch.org/2026/04/03/fifty-years-since-argentinas-darkest-night/>* -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#41330): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/41330 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/118652260/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
