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President Mauricio Macri announced that the United States would provide new declbadified documents on the dictatorship. This was announced by a message on social networks, which indicated that the administration of Donald Trump would send next month "important military documents". The timely announcement included a self-aggravation gesture that did not last long: Macri self-attributed as accomplishment, which is not the case.

"Three years ago, we asked the US government to declbadify the documents in its power on the dictatorship, and since then we have made two shipments of equipment, and next month we will have one more. Important military documents, "said the president, omitting any reference to the struggle of grandmothers and mothers, as well as the missing.

In fact, requests for declbadification are part of a process that began 20 years ago. The United States has already declbadified documents; then the demand continued and expanded.

In 2002, CELS, the grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and the Mothers of the Basic Line of Plaza de Mayo managed to obtain 4,700 declbadified State Department documents that report on the method of enforced disappearance used. by the Argentine repressors. In 2016, during Barack Obama's government, the United States announced that it would also declbadify military and intelligence documents on state terrorism in the country. Thus, what will happen next month is the third installment since declbadification was agreed.

The Foreign Ministry also drafted a statement with this announcement, according to which the material, "produced by 12 security and intelligence agencies, will constitute the largest distribution of declbadified documents to another State in terms of volume and archival quality. ". In the same vein as the president's tweet, the Foreign Ministry attributed access to these documents to the "process of dialogue and cooperation" that Mr. Cambiemos "began in 2016 with President Donald Trump".

"Argentina looks forward to this documentation, which will be a valuable contribution to the process of" Memory, truth and justice ", the statement added, in which it affirmed its appreciation for" the efforts "made by the National Security Council of White House in the declbadification project.

The initiative was however not governmental. In 2016, human rights advocates sent a letter to the US government asking for a declbadification "to know the fate and the truth about what happened to our missing". In the same letter, they demanded measures to locate the men and women "who are probably the grandchildren that the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo have been looking for for 40 years".