Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Argentina .- Secretary of State law says that Spain helped Argentina to "revalue the meaning of democracy"

MADRID, 4 May. The Secretary of State for Law of Argentina, Eduardo Luis Duhalde, Argentina said Wednesday that he learned of the Spanish transition to "reassess the meaning of democracy." In a lecture at the Ateneo de Madrid, Argentina dictatorship recalled Duhalde (1976-1983) to which they labeled a "terrorist." The leader said "the dictatorship amounted to brutality and terror, hypocrisy and denial of their own actions." During the ceremony, the coordinator of Argentina in the Archives of the Institute of Political Studies for Latin America and Africa (IEPALA), Mario AmorĂ³s, presented his book in the Archive IEPALA Argentina (1976-1983) 'the same day in which marks the 35 anniversary of the coup of the military junta led by Jorge Videla.

Amoros said it's not just the anniversary of the dictatorship in Argentina but also turning 35 years of military dictatorships of Bolivia, Uruguay, Brazil, Paraguay and Chile, which claimed they were "sponsored by Washington." By contrast, welcomed the progress achieved to live "time of hope for the peoples of South America was included even though the new challenges and threats." "New leaders make another world possible," he said.

Amoros said that the historical memory of the dictatorship helps to defeat impunity in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay and live a new era in the country. For his part, President of IEPALA, Carmelo Garcia, said that the dictatorship was used for the birth of a sense of political solidarity.

"The book recalls the political solidarity, the depth dimension of reconquest of the freedoms taken away." "This memory recovers consciousness of a people, a time of solidarity," Garcia said. Referring to the democratic transition in Argentina, Duhalde said the failed former President Nestor Kischner "recovered the meaning of the policy and transformed the country." He noted that Kischner helped to lower rates of poverty and marginality and strengthen the principles of fairness and equality.

Duhalde warned that with memory, freedom and justice that will end the "threat still present in Argentina. "The report draws on past and present is an element underpinning the future," and argued that to retrieve the memory for the new generations do not make the same mistakes of the past.

The secretary of state criticized law that Argentina still lives in the "swamp of oblivion and the mud of impunity" because justice has not been conducted against all those responsible "for the slaughter in Argentina." Specifically referred to "the economic powers that made the dictatorship."

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