Violence and Memory in our Contemporary Argentina

Abstract

The Argentine history of the 20th century is crossed by violence. The contempt for the constitutional order due to the discredit of liberal democracy and the preference for strong and authoritarian governments, gave rise to a spiral of barbarism attributable, under different responsibilities and without distinction of ideology, to all social actors: politicians, military, syndicalists, journalists, businessmen, members of the Church, etc. Reaching its peak of terror in the National Reorganization Process, savagery spread splinters of fear, division and hatred that continue to this day. It is necessary, therefore, to make a common and plural memory of the past - memory of the subjective feeling and of the objective fact-, with a spirit of humility and magnanimity, for the reconstruction of a common future that integrates us all.