If we go back 40 years in time, we have the milestone “Nunca Más” (“Never Again”) trial of the military juntas in 1985 and if we rewind a further four decades from there, we have the mass mobilisation of October 17 giving birth to the Peronist movement in 1945 – some exalted minds might find reason to see recent developments as a synthesis of 1945 and 1985 containing elements of both after a further gap of 40 years. Last Wednesday’s march would thus be viewed as the backlash of the masses against the arbitrary imprisonment of their leader with Cristina Fernández de Kirchner climbing on the shoulders of Juan Domingo Perón.
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