cursed blood

The retired military man Rey Pardellas was one of the leaders of the 181st Communications Battalion in the Argentine city of Bahía Blanca.

He was in charge of repression in area 511, a clandestine detention center established by the dictatorship that began in 1976. He has been tried for crimes against humanity since 2022. At the beginning of March, in a hearing, he referred to the theft of babies , children of armed guerrilla militants, whom the military raised as their own.

The theft, he said, demonstrates the “humanitarian sense” of those who appropriated “the children of terrorists,” since “in this way they would be prevented from growing up hating like their parents hated.

But it has been proven that many of these, like their parents, have cursed blood.”

The same day it was learned that the president of Uruguay, Lacalle Pou, ordered the elimination of the term “state terrorism” from secondary educational programs to refer to the dictatorship of his country (1973-1985), and replaced it with “suspension and subjugation.” of the constitutional guarantees of citizens.”

On March 8, hours before the march for Women's Day, the Government of Argentine President Javier Milei announced that paintings of prominent girls - María Elena Walsh, Juana Azurduy, Victoria - would be taken down from the Women's Hall of the Casa Rosada. Ocampo―, would be replaced by those of illustrious men―General Roca, Bartolomé Mitre―, and it would be called the Hall of Heroes.

The next day, an Argentine newspaper reported on the massive call for the 8M march.

There were comments from readers.

Two of them were talking to each other.

The first said: “What a good time to hand out soap and hair removal wax.”

The second: “Or gasoline and a match.”

An entire ecosystem: words that vindicate the crime, euphemisms that try to cover it up, far from innocent gestures that fuel a bonfire that no longer even cares about hiding its flames.

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