MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Argentina marches on 50th anniversary of coup that led to the Falklands War and the regime's fall
Thousands of people are expected to gather this Tuesday in Plaza de Mayo and in Argentina’s major cities to mark the 50th anniversary of the March 24, 1976, military coup that installed a dictatorship responsible for thousands of forced disappearances and which, in its final stage, launched the Falklands War in a desperate bid to cling to power. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWho wrote the title of this article !?? It's premise is off by about SIX years!
Posted 34 minutes ago - Link - Report abuse 0This paper never changes!! LOL
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Argentina commemorates in renewed protest and repudiation the military coup that brought the massacre of thousands of innocent political activists. —nothing to do with the war that attempted to recuperate their Malvinas Islands from the British six years later, and which the military occupation used to try and save its ass at the point people were starting to gain momentum and leverage towards their expulsion. A war that very possibly the Generals were cleverly tricked into committing to by the US, using and forcing the country to go through by creating hope towards recuperating these islands stolen from Argentina conjointly by the US and by Britain in 1932.
To Argentina these are two completely and entirely different things that the Junta stupidly brought together in steep detriment of the Argentine protest against this usurpation of their islands, giving Britain the opportunity to transform the narrative of the dispute into a much more patriotic and prideful one that pushed history aside using false rhetoric that before did not exist. Which is one of the reasons their actions became suspect by many who today study that military conflict.
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