Tag: Argentina Military Junta

• Tuesday, March 25th 2025 - 09:07 UTC

  Milei orders declassifying Nazi and military dictatorship files

  

  Argentine President Javier Milei announced Monday two significant declassification initiatives. First, at the request of US Senator Steve Daines, he ordered the release of all official documents related to Nazis who sought refuge in Argentina after World War II, Cabinet Chief Guillermo Francos confirmed. These files, primarily held by the Defense Ministry, include financial records and their release would end decades of secrecy.

• Tuesday, March 25th 2025 - 08:36 UTC

  Human rights groups and opposition criticize Milei's denialist stance regarding the country's genocide in the late 1970s

  

  Argentine human rights organizations gathered Monday at Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo to deliver a speech marking the 49th anniversary of the Military Junta's uprising against María Estela Martínez de Perón. During the National Memory, Truth, and Justice Holiday, they once again addressed the disappearances and tortures during the dictatorship while blaming President Javier Milei and Vice-President Victoria Villarruel for their “denialist” approach to the issue.

• Monday, March 24th 2025 - 10:32 UTC

  Argentine gov't releases “full history” video highlighting pre-coup terrorism in the 1970s

  

  The Argentine Government of President Javier Milei Monday released a video on social media saying March 24, 2025, should be the “Day of Complete Memory” on the 49th anniversary of the Military Junta uprising headed by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafel Videla, marking the beginning of the self-appointed National Reorganization Process which ended up in the 1982 Falklands/Malvinas War and a return to democratic rule the following year.

• Sunday, September 17th 2023 - 08:09 UTC

  “The Falklands problem is not the Islanders or the English, but us Argentines,” points out Cisneros

  

  The Falklands/Malvinas will eventually be returned to Argentina but that is going to be a long, long road, forecasted Andres Cisneros a retired Argentine diplomat expert in the Falklands/Malvinas dispute and deputy foreign minister with Guido Di Tella in the nineties.

• Thursday, March 25th 2021 - 08:15 UTC

  Argentine VP points fingers at US, Macri and the IMF during Memory, Truth and Justice Day ceremony

  

  Argentine Vice-president Cristina Fernández de Kirchner Wednesday headed a ceremony in Las Flores, a small town in the province of Buenos Aires, to mark a new anniversary of the coup d'état by the military Junta which overthrew the democratically elected government of Juan Perón's widow, María Estela Martínez (also known as Isabel Perón or simply Isabelita).

• Wednesday, April 1st 2020 - 18:23 UTC

  Guatemala/Belize dispute, a potential second front during the Falklands conflict?

  

  The Falklands War, a 10-week undeclared conflict between Argentina and the United Kingdom, broke out in April 1982 over two British dependent territories in the South Atlantic. However, it appears, the Argentine threat was not the only one that Downing Street had to counter at the time.

• Wednesday, December 11th 2019 - 23:25 UTC

  Last Argentine Junta member dies aged 93

  

  Former Air Force General Omar Domingo Rubens Graffigna died under house arrest on Monday, it was announced.

• Thursday, August 29th 2019 - 07:29 UTC

  Thule island occupation: Argentine navy tested UK's resolve as part of its long term plan to take the Falklands

  

  The Argentine government declassified a secret decree from the latest military dictatorship which authorized and funded an operation for the “effective and peaceful” occupation of one of the South Atlantic islands, occupied by the UK , in what was considered a first step to the ultimate goal of taking over the Falkland Islands.

• Monday, June 17th 2019 - 12:24 UTC

  Prince Andrew's determination to participate in the Falklands' conflict despite the Queen and Mrs. Thatcher strong doubts

  

  British media are recalling that Prince Andrew, the Queen's second son sailed to war in the Falkland Islands, back in 1982, making the sovereign and elected government officials of the time extremely fearful that he could become a target prize for the Argentine forces.

• Saturday, April 13th 2019 - 07:40 UTC

  US hands Argentina thousands of declassified documents from the military dictatorship

  

  The United States handed thousands of documents on Friday to Argentina on disappearances by the military dictatorship (1976/1983), completing Washington's biggest-ever transfer of documents to another government.