This footage was filmed and produced 24 March 2024.

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24 March 1976 marked a tragic milestone in Argentine history: the beginning of one of the country's darkest and most painful eras. Forty-eight years ago, the Argentine Armed Forces took control of the government in a coup d'etat that overthrew the constitutional president, Maria Estela Martinez de Peron, thus establishing a civil-military dictatorship that lasted until December 1983.

This military junta, initially led by Lieutenant General Jorge Rafael Videla, inaugurated a regime, which lasted seven years, marked by censorship, systematic torture and the forced disappearance of at least 30,000 people, according to estimates by organisations such as the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos).
During those years, the dictatorship implemented a policy of state terrorism with methods to silence the opposition and perpetuate its regime.

Around 800 clandestine detention centres were set up throughout the country, according to data from the Secretariat for Human Rights, part of the Argentinean Ministry of Justice, including the Navy Mechanics School (ESMA).

The government body estimates that some 5,000 detainees passed through ESMA.

SHOTLIST:
1. Various handkerchiefs of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in the squares of Buenos Aires;
2. Various paintings in homage to the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo;
3. Various murals with photos of disappeared persons;
4. Various of plaques with names of detainees/disappeared in places where they were kidnapped or killed in Buenos Aires;
5. Various of graffiti and murals in the streets of Buenos Aires in remembrance of the military coup;
6. Various of the detention centre "Club Atletico";
7. Various club murals in homage to Madre de Plaza de Mayo "Norita".