MalVinas

With “M” for Memory, “V” for Truth and in Search of Justice

Abstract

The commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the war, paradoxically, has given us the opportunity to stop assimilating the Malvinas signifier with that of war. Looking up, we analyze the 190 years of illegal British usurpation to get out of the labyrinth that the dictatorship left us with its international diplomatic swings. On one hand, they took a just cause into bastard hands and at the same time committed another crime of the military dictatorship, breaking with a state policy that was ensuring that sooner or later, the Islands would be under national sovereignty.

Dates and anniversaries are resignified. People make popular struggles their own and transform events and facts that could have been contradictory, but that at the same time condense the utopias that point out the path of emancipation.

With the proposal to rebuild and strengthen the Week of Memory, we reflect on the place April 2nd occupies in the official ephemeris, its relationship with other events close in time and sentiment, as well as the acceptance -or not- of that date in popular memory.