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Where were you thirty years ago? I was just being born. Seems like a long time ago that an important chapter in the history of Latin America was being written, but the fact is it’s still as fresh in the minds of many as if it were yesterday.

On Friday, Argentines commemorated the 30th anniversary of the military coup that would mark the beginning of a dictatorship and claim the lives of tens of thousands of innocent people. It all started on a normal day in Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo, a porteño symbol and a place whose name has become synonomous with oppression and death.

Thitry years ago, on March 24 1976, a military commitee headedup by Jorge Rafael Videla and comprised of Admiral Eduardo Massera and Brigadier Ramón Orlando Agosti gained power through a coup de etat.

There began a dictatorship that is said to have claimed between 9000 and 30,000 victims, and that didn’t end until October of 1983, with the election of Raúl Alfonsín as president of Argentina.

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