Comments on: Last March of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:13:56 +0000

Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo

By: Ossana Maria Ines

Ossana Maria Ines — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 21:27:11 +0000

Solo queria saber a que direccion escribir para saber si soy hija de desaparecidosss. Naci en el año 1976

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:50:35 +0000

Hi Juan,

Good point that you make. I agree that authoritarian governments of either the left or right are not good ways of running a country. Of course, looking at the historical context then one also need to consider that those left-wing guerrillas were responding to right-wing oligarchical governments established long before US intervention.

What is certainly true is that neither extreme right-wing or extreme left-wing views are any way to run a country.

It’s unfortunate that many countries can’t find moderate politicians as leaders.

By: Juan

Juan — Sat, 30 May 2009 22:02:55 +0000

Everyone talks about US intervention in Latin America but you all seem to forget the left-wing guerrillas that started it all. If those hadn’t tried to install communism in Latin America, there would have been no need for the US to intervene… I think that instead of always pointing fingers at the US, we should evaluate this within its historic context. The US support of right-wing dictatorships occurred during the Cold War. The US was clearly trying to prevent communism from expanding into the whole of Latin America. Nobody wants to live under a dictatorship, but hey, if the leftists had prevailed would it have been any different? I don’t think so… We would probably be living under a tyranny, like the Cubans who have endured so many years of communist oppresion, with human rights violations, lack of individual liberties etc etc etc
Don’t be fooled, left-wing dictatorships are no better, regardless of what some want to make us believe….

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 29 Jan 2006 15:17:28 +0000

Marc – I agree that many of Bonafini’s comments are extreme and have tained the Madres, which is very unfortunate.

Roberto – thanks for your comment. It’s sadly true that the US did support the right-wing dictatorships in Latin America in the US fight against communism. It seems that a lot of the anti-Americanism that exists in Latin America probably stems from the US support of these brutal governments in the past.

Argentina does have a complex, paradoxical and yet fascinating history.

By: Roberto Bobrow

Roberto Bobrow — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 15:47:10 +0000

“the atrocities that can be committed by governments in the name of patriotism.”
You failed to point out at the approval, encouragement and conceiling given to de “dictadores” by the American Administration, the School of the Americas and Henry Kissinger. They gave those brutal military men the sense of mission, faighting insidious communism in a world war scale.
In the end, they thought they’ll be rewarded with an American support to recover the Malvinas, a fatal misunderstanding of their role in world politics.

Anyway, your blog excels. I dropped here from “Global Voices” and I like your view of my beloved city very much. I praise also your effort at reading historians and traying to get sense from our rather paradoxical history.

By: Marc

Marc — Sat, 28 Jan 2006 13:47:13 +0000

Their reputation is tainted because of the abismal comments that crazy old woman Hebe de Bonafini says. She is totally nuts and should shut up.

By: mymarkup.net

mymarkup.net — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 19:39:44 +0000

Mödrarna slutar marschera – är det verkligen slut nu?

Jeff Barry hos bloggen Buenos Aires, City of Faded Elegance, berättar om den sista marschen för Madres de…