Fifty years after the coup, and more than four decades into uninterrupted democracy, “Memory, Truth, and Justice” has become a kind of national liturgy. Even when it is questioned, the language of memory continues to structure how Argentina argues with itself about the past. Yet Margalit was skeptical about what nations can genuinely remember — memory, he argued, resides in individuals and in the relationships between them. For those who first marched after the dictatorship, memory was something immediate, almost physical. For the youth of today, memory arrived already organized — through trials, memorials, anniversaries, and textbooks.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald March 24, 2026 16:14 UTC