2023-10-03 02:55:30
Presidential candidate Javier Milei denied on Sunday (10/01/2023), during the pre-election debate held in Argentina, that there were 30,000 missing during the country’s last military dictatorship (1976-1983).
“We value the vision of memory, truth and justice. Let’s start with the truth. There were not 30,000 missing people, there were 8,753,” said the candidate with the most votes in the open, simultaneous and mandatory primary elections held last August.
The presidential candidate made this statement during the pre-election debate held in Santiago del Estero (northwest), the oldest city in Argentina, in which the five candidates for the Presidency of the South American country offered their proposals on the economy, education and human rights and coexistence. democratic.
The economist expressed his complaint about the “aberrant” accusations of which his training has been the subject during the electoral campaign: “fascists, fascists, Nazis, nothing to do with us.”
The theory of war
“There is no place for those accusations,” added Milei, who pointed out that the party he leads is “against a one-eyed vision of history,” because “in the 70s there was a war,” in which the security forces of the state committed “crimes”, but “terrorists also killed people, tortured, planted bombs and committed crimes against humanity”.
Milei’s running mate, Victoria Villarruel, who would assume, if she wins the October elections, in addition to the vice presidency, the powers in security and defense, is someone close to the military sphere and had contacts with former repressors.
The Argentine newspaper Página 12 pointed out that for Milei, these crimes are “excesses.”
“That takes away the idea of systematicity and planning – something that has been proven by the Argentine justice system for 38 years. The theory of excesses is not new: it was raised since 1977 by the dictator Jorge Rafael Videla, whom Villarruel frequented,” noted Page 12.
Recently, Villarruel organized an event in Buenos Aires to recognize victims of terrorism from leftist organizations.
According to human rights organizations, some 30,000 people were, without going to trial, disappeared, tortured and thrown into the sea; Controversial figures due to the contrast with official state data that register some 9,000 missing persons, and by those who relativize the dictatorship.
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