Half a century after the civic-military coup of 1976, the Government of Javier Milei published a great audiovisual material entitled “The Victims They Wanted to Hide”, which reviews the events of the 70s from a a complete and critical view of the biased versions prevailing in recent decades
.The video, released through the official account of the Casa Rosada, lasts one hour and fifteen minutes and focuses on the need to approach the period with a broader perspective, also showing the crimes and murders of left-wing terrorist organizations.
In this sense, the institutional message emphasizes: “History must be known in its entirety, when presented in a partial way, it ceases to be memory and becomes an instrument of manipulation”.
Since its inception, the material has introduced a strong criticism of the approach adopted by Kirchner governments, particularly since 2003.
At the opening, a voice-over says: “In 2003, the Argentine national government launched a massive political campaign using large public resources to impose on society a narrative about the tragic events of the 70s, with a biased and revanchist vision whose ultimate objective was to economically benefit a few and gain political gain to build new majorities of
power.”Along the same lines, the video states that during this process, “thousands of victims of state, parastatal and guerrilla group actions were ignored, marginalized and silenced, because their recognition did not fit the narrative that was sought to consolidate.”
The production insists that, in addition to those “disappeared” by the State, those people killed by the left-wing terrorist organizations that acted during that period must also be made visible
