Buenos Aires, March 18 (NA) – Buenos Aires provincial deputy and former Quilmes mayor Mayra Mendoza called for reflection on the 50th anniversary of the coup, questioning the government over “continuities” with the dictatorship's economic model. “Today's session demands great responsibility, deep reflection, and seriousness. It has been 50 years since a civic-military coup that left 30,000 people detained, disappeared, and 500 children appropriated,” Mendoza stated, highlighting the work of the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. In this regard, she emphasized the recovery of 140 appropriated grandchildren and justified the trial of the military juntas, as well as the nullity of the laws of due obedience and point final, as part of the policies of memory, truth, and justice. During her speech, the leader linked the 1976 coup to the imposition of an economic model and compared it to the present: “It was an attempt to impose an economic plan,” she affirmed, while pointing out similarities with the management of President Javier Milei. According to what the Argentine News Agency could learn, Mendoza stated that “there is not a single coincidence, but a continuity of the same anti-Argentine destruction model from Martínez de Hoz through Macri to Milei.” Likewise, she questioned the institutional functioning by stating that “there is no democracy without independent justice” and denounced a situation of judicial persecution against former President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner. In another segment, she warned about the social impact of the economic context by stating that “workers survive, they do not live as everyone deserves” and called to avoid the repetition of policies that, according to her, “make the rich richer.” Finally, Mendoza called to “work, militate, and manage” to recover “an Argentina with social justice” and concluded: “They have not defeated us and we have no right to resign ourselves.”
