Overview
- One of the biggest crowds in years filled Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo to mark the coup’s 50th anniversary, with rallies nationwide under the banner “Memory, Truth and Justice.”
- President Javier Milei pressed to include victims of guerrilla groups in the commemorations, shared an anti-communism quote, and the presidency released a video featuring testimonies from a woman who recovered her identity and the son of a kidnapped colonel.
- Milei’s cost-cutting drive has downgraded the Human Rights Secretariat, cut its budget, and fired archive analysis teams, which rights groups say hampers searches for remains and slows technical investigations.
- Argentine officials published nearly 500 pages of intelligence records from 1973–1983 that include surveillance directives for universities, unions, businesses, political groups, and media, saying the release builds trust and counters conspiracy claims.
- Families carried photos of the disappeared and groups renewed calls to find stolen children, with Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo noting about 140 identified from an estimated 500, in what one marcher described as a fight carried forward with hope.