US EditionFamilies and Experts Continue Identifications of Argentina’s Disappeared 50 Years On
Since 2011, forensic experts have identified 121 sets of disappeared remains amid ongoing challenges from military denial and reduced government support.
- In early March 2026, Tucuman authorities transferred the incomplete remains of Eduardo Ramos and Alicia Cerrotta to their families, who buried the urns in a Tafi Viejo mausoleum, marking the closing of a 50-year wound.
- A military junta seized power on March 24, 1976, launching a campaign of forced disappearances that claimed an estimated 30,000 victims, with the Pozo de Vargas becoming a primary mass grave site.
- Since 2011, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team has identified 121 sets of remains from about 38,000 bone fragments recovered at the Pozo de Vargas site, which contained 149 victims total.
- Returning these remains provides families closure and supplies material evidence for prosecutions, though lawyer Sol Hourcade cautioned that accessing secret state archives remains a "titanic task."
- President Javier Milei's austerity measures, including budget cuts to human rights programs and dismissal of archive analysis teams, threaten to slow identifications and weaken prosecutions of remaining cases.
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Ultraliberal President Javier Milei insists that the victims of the dictatorship be remembered, as well as those of the attacks perpetrated by guerrilla organizations operating at that time.
The Argentines look again this Tuesday in front of the mirror of their most tragic history. On March 24, but half a century ago, a government emerged from the ballot box was overthrown. It was not, however, a coup d’état such as those of 1930, 1943, 1955 and 1966. The National Reorganization Process set in motion a bloody machinery that changed the configuration of the South American country.
50 years after the coup in Argentina, thousands march in Buenos Aires in memory of up to 30,000 disappeared, amidst political tensions due to the historical narrative.
On 24 March 2026 it marked the 50th year of the military coup in Argentina, which was officially called the National Reorganization Process. As on the occasion of the Chilean coup of 11 September 1973, the echo raised in Italy was vast due to Argentina's pre-eminence in the South American continent and the common roots that bind the two countries.
On the day when it is remembered (and does not remember) the last hit by soldiers in Argentina from 1976 to 1983, the memory of history and events is made so that the new generations will not be forgotten
The iconic site of Buenos Aires hosts a vigil that gathers artists and activists of DD.HH., preamble to the massive mobilization that is expected this Tuesday
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