Event. Argentina 50 Years After the Military Coup D'etat: Authoritarianism, Democracy, Labour, and Human Rights
- Marcelo Vieta
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March 26, 2026
6:00-8:00 pm
Nexus Lounge, 12th floor, OISE, University of Toronto, 252 Bloor St. West (above the St George Subway Station) (food and refreshments will be served)
Join us in marking the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup d'état in Argentina. Half a century later, the past is not behind us. The legacy of the civic-military dictatorship continues to shape how we understand memory, justice, democracy, and the ongoing search for truth. The Argentine experience offers not only a history to remember, but lessons that continue to resonate.
This panel discussion will examine the political and social struggles surrounding the 1976 coup in Argentina, how they were transformed with the return to democracy, and what these developments reveal about political change in Argentina over the last fifty years. It also invites reflection on the limits that the legacy of the dictatorship continues to impose on the country's political and economic life.
These reflections seem particularly important as the democratic consensus that, despite its limitations, helped keep authoritarianism at bay since the1980s gives way to a far-right political experiment whose full consequences remain uncertain.
Moderator: Dr. Marcelo Vieta, Departmental Chair and Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto
Presentations by invited speakers, discussing:
• Workers and working class struggles in Argentina
• Human rights as continual struggle
• From the transition to democracy to the authoritarian turn
With special guest: Marcela Solsona Sintora, granddaughter #129, whose identity was recoverd by the Abuelas de la Plaza de Mayo.
For further event details, please visit https://neveragain.crd.co/#panel
