EPISODE · May 8, 2026 · 47 MIN
Argentina 1976/The National Reorganization Process
from Cronicas al Sur del Rio Grande (Episodios de Historia Latino Americana) · host Un Podcast de Juan Carlos Navarrete
On March 24, 1976, the Armed Forces of Argentina overthrew the constitutional president María Estela Martinez de Perón. What it came after is not simply a Coup D'Etat more in the Latin American history. It was the beginning of one of the most brutal regimes of the XX century on the continent.The Military Council, headed by General Jorge Rafael Videla, established the "National Reorganization Process". Beneath that administrative euphemism lay hidden a systematic machinery of terror: clandestine detention centers, forced disappearances, and the silencing of all political, trade union, and intellectual activity.It is estimated that between 10,000 and 30,000 people were lost during the years that the dictatorship lasted. A generation has been taken over from Argentinian history.In this podcast we explore these years: the structural causes that are possible on the golf course, the operation of the repressive device, the voices that resist, and the injuries that — decades after — Argentina has sought heal.To understand what happened between 1976 and 1983 it is only a historical exercise. Is an act of memory. And the memory, as we taught the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, is also a form of justice.
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On March 24, 1976, the Armed Forces of Argentina overthrew the constitutional president María Estela Martinez de Perón. What it came after is not simply a Coup D'Etat more in the Latin American history. It was the beginning of one of the most brutal regimes of the XX century on the continent.The Military Council, headed by General Jorge Rafael Videla, established the "National Reorganization Process". Beneath that administrative euphemism lay hidden a systematic machinery of terror: clandestine detention centers, forced disappearances, and the silencing of all political, trade union, and intellectual activity.It is estimated that between 10,000 and 30,000 people were lost during the years that the dictatorship lasted. A generation has been taken over from Argentinian history.In this podcast we explore these years: the structural causes that are possible on the golf course, the operation of the repressive device, the voices that resist, and the injuries that — decades after — Argentina has sought heal.To understand what happened between 1976 and 1983 it is only a historical exercise. Is an act of memory. And the memory, as we taught the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, is also a form of justice.
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