The Latest: Thousands march during Obama Argentine visit

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Thousands march during Obama Argentine visit

Updated 3:53 pm, Thursday, March 24, 2016

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Several thousand people are marching in Buenos Aires to commemorate the 40th anniversary of a military coup that installed a repressive regime that killed or disappeared thousands of people.

Protesters gathered several blocks from the Plaza de Mayo square in downtown and marched toward it.

Leading the protest is Estela de Carlotto, president of the of the rights group Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

The annual march had an added focus this year with the visit of President Barack Obama. Several rights groups argue that the United States backed the dictatorship and thus the presence of an American president is insulting.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/The-Latest-Rights-groups-to-boycott-Obama-at-7005153.php

[forest444]

1. Thanks for this thread, Judi. Especially coming on the 40th anniversary of the last Argentine coup.

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Here's a link to a local news article with photos and footage of the commemorative march. Enjoy!

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.infonews.com/nota/285522/multitudinaria-manifestacion-en-plaza-de&prev=search

[Judi Lynn]

2. So this anniversary was marked all over the country, too. So glad to learn this.

It was no small group turn-out in Buenos Aires, was it?

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So poignant seeing the group of mothers of the tortured, then murdered suspected leftist still represented in the gathering. They are so courageous, knowing that the right-wing dictatorship actually sent the "Blond Death Angel," to infiltrate them before he was able to set up some of them for termination after he deemed they were instigators of demonstrations, people like the two French nuns they tortured, then threw into the Atlantic from an airplane.

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Captain Alfredo Astiz

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http://static.lexpress.fr/medias_668/w_1520,h_855,c_fill,g_north/v1404760760/argentine-alfredo-astiz_342336.jpg

Former Argentine Navy captain Alfredo Astiz is heckled by members ofthe human rights group H.I.J.O.S., made up of children of victims of the Dirty War



Two French nuns he had murdered who supported the mothers of the murdered activists. [/center]
From your article, another photo of people demonstrating today, with the grandmothers wearing white scarves:

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