Memoria, verdad y justicia: reflexões sobre a ditadura militar argentina e o ensino de história

Abstract

This article explores the context of Argentina's last military dictatorship (1976-1983), emphasizing the process of building national memory and the impasses faced in developing a democratic society allied with truth and justice. The text addresses the factors that preceded the coup, as well as contextualizing how the Military Junta incorporated the discourse of the threat to social order, waging a war against subversives. With this, it shows how the end of the terrorist state was permeated by the struggles and resistance of human rights organizations, as well as the political sectors in a task of identifying the events, resulting in the publication of Nunca Más (Never Again). It is worth highlighting the contributions of the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, who took over the social scene by demanding the punishment of the torturers and preserving the memory of their disappeared children. Finally, it presents an analysis of the textbooks used in Argentine schools, in order to explain how the debate about memory in history teaching develops historical thinking and avoids the dangers of denialism and historical revisionism.