![]() The voices of the marchers that day spoke loudly and with determination: This shall never again happen in Argentina. This barbaric junta had left in its wake 15,000 people missing, 10,000 prisoners, 4000 dead and tens of thousands in exile. ![]() In 2006, while visiting Buenos Aires on the 30th anniversary of the March 1976 government takeover by the military junta, I watched a parade that lasted for several hours involving as many as a hundred thousand people, young and old, who came out to passionately proclaim that they would never again allow their country to be taken over by a military junta, the likes of which ruled from 1976 to 1983. Who was this man, Rodolfo Walsh, with the Irish last name, that I had never heard about? What did he do and what did he stand for? And why was he kidnapped? On the building above was another banner that said: “The worst opinion is silence” and another carried by a parade marcher: “The worst attitude is indifference”. It was printed by the Press Corps Union of Buenos Aires, Argentina and carried by members of their union as they milled about on the street after a parade held earlier that day. ![]() ![]() ![]() The banner said in Spanish: Kidnapped – March 25, 1977– Walsh, Rodolfo– We Shall Not Forget. An Irishman You Probably Never Heard About But Should Have ![]()
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