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Fifty Years After Argentina’s Coup, New Study Shows Broad Rejection of the Dictatorship and Support for Ongoing Trials

Fresh polling underscores a durable social consensus that could be tested by speculation about executive pardons.

Overview

  • The UBA’s Observatorio Pulsar and CELS released a mixed‑methods report this week based on a national survey of 1,136 respondents and eight focus groups.
  • Seventy‑one percent view the 1976–1983 regime negatively, and 70% say the state should continue prosecuting crimes against humanity.
  • Sixty‑one percent characterize the dictatorship as a systematic plan of disappearances and rights violations, while 32% see an anti‑terrorism campaign with excesses.
  • Preference for democracy is strong at 78%, and 83% consider a new coup unlikely, indicating consolidated rejection of authoritarian rule.
  • Argentine media report unconfirmed talk that President Javier Milei could consider pardons around the Day of Memory, a prospect commentators warn could trigger pushback.