The dictatorship 1976-83

Sad. But I was enthralled by the movie 1985. It was superbly enacted.

@Bombonera , if you have an opportunity to tour ESMA, be sure to do so. We went on Museum Night, in early December 2019, and were able to talk with people whose family members had been imprisoned and tortured there; some never returned home, as they were drugged, loaded onto planes, flown out over the Rio de la Plata, and dumped out.

The film Argentina 1985 tells a half of the truth. It deliberately put in oblivion the guerrilla warfare which was operating between 1970 and 1976.

Many people, especially the expats, do not know that the Third World War began in the Cuba Revolution and tried to capture the whole of Latin America. And they try to convince us that on March 24, 1976, a group of Military decided to kill, suppress, torture and other cruelties because they liked.

The Military intervention was the logical response to the subversive leftist groups, who from 1970 to 1975,, under constititional government,continued to attack anyone. Those subversive were led by the Cubans, and supported by the Russia, which wished to challenge the United States in their backyard, Latin America.

I regret very much the method, illlegal of course, copied from the French in the Argelia figth for independence.

But the worst, I regret the intervention on Falkland-Malvinas, a capricious move without any possibility of triumph.

The majority of my countrymen were celebrating the coup d. etat of March1976. At least, we had not became Cuba

I know that this is very controversial, but I was 27 years old when this happened. Therefore if anyone of this forum has swallowed the other side of the truth, I try to open your mind and seeing the whole story.

Thanks Carlos. Not only controversial, but unresolved struggle for true freedom and democratic reform. The issues and histories are complex, multi dimensional amalgam of human desires. "I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest." (Winston Churchill, radio broadcast, 1 Oct. 1939)

I’m wondering if the second one is in English. In any case “not available in your country” on that one is an even bigger roadblock than my “mas despacio, por favor” Spanish is, for the other two. Wish I could understand rapid-fire Spanish, but I just can’t.

Thanks, Splinter . I didn’t really know about him, or about Isabelita’s belief in the occult. That whole time was so horrendous.

This film will be really difficult to watch, but necessary.

This part of the review had me scratching my head:

“A central theme of Traslados is the fate of Esther Ballestrino, Azucena Villaflor and María Ponce – the founders of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo human rights group that fought and still fights for answers about the fate of the disappeared.

They were kidnapped along with French nuns Alice Domon and Léonie Duquet and seven other activists, and thrown from a plane on the night of December 14, 1977, according to a reconstruction of events.”

The Madres group was already founded in 1977, and the founders themselves were kidnapped and taken on one of the infamous one-way flights?

I finally had a chance to watch the whole hour. Fascinating - - Especially the reference to the visit from Amnesty International.

What became of the three journalists? I wonder if William F Buckley ever did a follow-up interview?

Not another f'íng holiday?

That’s the first time I’ve seen her on video.

Was she highly political like Eva, or did she simply allow her husband to elevate her to the vice presidency in order to keep the power all in the family?

Her lengthy house arrest seems almost superfluous. But given the bloodthirsty military who overthrew her, I’m surprised they didn’t simply push her out of the helicopter on the night of the coup.