In a country where every crisis becomes routine, Argentina faces an unexpected provocation: a group calling itself the Black Handkerchiefs will march in Plaza de Mayo demanding the release —and the moral rehabilitation— of former military officers and police convicted for crimes of the 1970s.
Their claim touches the nation’s most radioactive nerve: the story of the dictatorship and the wars of political violence. For decades, the narrative was fixed, unquestionable, state-sponsored and internationally celebrated. But the Black Handkerchiefs insist that what Argentina calls “memory” is, in fact, a half-truth.
Their argument is explosive: hundreds of defendants were victims of judicial overreach, ideological crusades and endless trials designed to keep them imprisoned indefinitely. Nearly a thousand have died behind bars. Many, they say, after serving sentences that were quietly extended.
For the movement’s founders, this isn’t about military nostalgia. It’s about a nation unable to confront the full complexity of its past. As one organizer puts it: “When only one side can tell the story, justice becomes propaganda.”
The political class wants the protest to pass unnoticed. It won’t.
When the black handkerchiefs rise in Plaza de Mayo —a square historically monopolized by a single narrative— it won’t simply mark a protest. It will mark a fracture.
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