President Alberto Fernández helps publicise the Plantamos Memoría initiative. | Presidencia de la Nación
President Alberto Fernández has urged Argentines to keep the memory of those who lost their lives during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship alive and in their thoughts, ahead of this week’s remembrance services.
Speaking on Saturday, just a few days before the country remembers the March 24, 1976 coup that brought the dictatorship to power, the president said that it was important to keep those lost to history fresh in everyone’s thoughts.
"I ask everyone that every March 24 we frankly remember the horror that we live," said the president, addressing an event honouring workers who were detained and disappeared by the military junta.