The Government of Javier Milei once again took a firm stance in the vindication of the historical truth about the violent 70s in Argentina. In commemoration of March 24, it released a video titled "The Day of Memory, Truth, and Complete Justice," challenging the false narrative imposed on society by Kirchnerism and revealing aspects of history that have been systematically hidden for political and economic purposes. In the video, political scientist and writer Agustín Laje explains how the official version promoted in recent decades has reduced the conflict of the 70s to an ideological simplification that ignores the existence of leftist terrorist groups that operated in the country long before the 1976 coup. "I am part of a generation that lived its entire life in democracy. The violent 70s reached me only as an exercise in historical memory, which became state policy just when I entered high school," Laje notes. "In practice, this policy functioned as a process of destruction of historical truth, for partisan, ideological, and economic purposes," he adds. Agustín Laje, politólogo y escritor. The indoctrination promoted by Kirchnerist governments consolidated the so-called "single demon theory," a biased interpretation of history that presents the Armed Forces as the only ones responsible for the violence of the time and hides the existence of leftist terrorist organizations like Montoneros and the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP). These groups, which operated since the 60s, carried out more than 5,000 explosive attacks, 1,500 murders, 1,700 kidnappings, and numerous attacks on military and police units. The video also highlights the role of Fidel Castro's Cuban communist dictatorship in the financing and training of these terrorist organizations in Argentina and other countries in the region. Foreign interference in national politics, with the aim of establishing a socialist regime similar to the Cuban one, was a determining factor in the escalation of violence that led to the 1976 coup. In fact, Mario Firmenich, former leader of Montoneros, admitted that "undertaking armed struggle implied the certain eventuality of killing. There were no demons, there was a civil war." It is undeniable that illegal repression existed, but what Kirchnerism tried to erase is that this began before the 1976 coup. The paramilitary organization Triple A, linked to the government of Juan Domingo Perón, killed hundreds of people before March 24, 1976. Grupos terroristas de izquierda. Additionally, the Peronist democratic government itself signed decrees ordering the Armed Forces to "annihilate the actions of subversive elements." CONADEP, in its book "Never Again," recorded more than 1,100 disappearances that occurred before the coup, irrefutable proof that state terrorism did not begin with the dictatorship, but intensified with it.
The scam of the 30,000 disappeared
The myth of the "30,000 disappeared" is another of the great fallacies installed by Kirchnerism to manipulate history. According to CONADEP itself, the real number of disappeared is 8,961, but this number was artificially inflated to gain support in Europe and justify compensations that cost the Argentine state more than 2.111 billion dollars until 2015. Meanwhile, the victims of terrorism never received reparations or any recognition, consolidating a model of selective impunity that favored only a small sector of society. The Milei Government's video represents a break with the policy of historical manipulation established by Kirchnerism. History must be told completely, without omitting the crimes committed by leftist terrorist organizations and without exclusively victimizing a single sector. Memory, truth, and justice must be for all Argentines, and not just for those who fit into a biased and convenient narrative for a political party. With this new video, the Milei Government puts on the table a long-postponed and necessary debate: the recognition of all the victims of the violence of the 70s and the end of the partisan use of history for political and economic purposes. True justice can't be selective, and memory must not be manipulated.
