The day is December 10, 1983, a few hours before Alfonsín is set to become Argentina’s president following a brutal 8-year-long dictatorship. “To the pitch, president.”Bugge was only 27 when he was assigned to shadow Alfonsín that day. A period of violence comes to an endDemocracy returned to Argentina in 1983 after eight years of a bloody and violent military dictatorship that kidnapped, tortured, and disappeared 30,000 people. The military dictatorship wanted to stretch its time in power until January or May of the following year, but Alfonsín demanded Bignone hand over the presidency before. Forty years later, it’s still a tradition that Argentine presidents are inaugurated on that day.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald December 10, 2023 12:09 UTC