Overview
- Crowds in the tens of thousands converged on Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo on Tuesday, with marches nationwide to mark the 1976 military takeover.
- President Javier Milei’s administration questioned long‑cited disappearance totals and reframed the memorial day to include guerrilla victims, releasing a video with testimonies from a recovered abductee and the son of a kidnapped officer.
- Argentine officials last week posted nearly 500 pages of declassified intelligence records that detail surveillance of unions, universities, businesses and news outlets, giving researchers and courts new evidence to examine.
- The Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo led the march and pressed the search for stolen children, with about 500 taken during the dictatorship and 140 identities restored so far.
- Human rights groups said budget cuts and staff dismissals in the downgraded Human Rights Secretariat have slowed archive work and efforts to locate remains, as long‑running cases alleging corporate complicity continue and firms such as Mercedes‑Benz reject the claims.