United States will deliver more declassified files of the military dictatorship

President Mauricio Macri announced Sunday that the US government would make a balance sheet new declbadified file delivery of the last dictatorship "with important military documentation" which, it was judged, will be fundamental to Justice can move forward in the outstanding causes of the past, one of the darkest periods in the history of Argentina ".

The documentation will be delivered on April 12 in the National Archives in Washington DC, United States.

"Three years ago, we asked the US government to declbadify the documents in its possession regarding the latest civil-military dictatorship in Argentina, and since then we have already delivered two important deliveries and next month a new one. with important military documentationMacri wrote on her Twitter, Facebook and Instagram accounts.

In this regard, he added: "This is the largest amount of information that the United States has ever given to another country, which will be essential for justice to move forward on the causes of the past, always in outstanding. one of the darkest epochs of Argentine history. "

The head of state announced Sunday the new delivery of the declbadified records of the military dictatorship on the occasion of the 43rd anniversary of the coup d'état, during the commemoration of the Day of Remembrance of the Truth and justice.

In turn, the Minister of Justice, Germán Garavano, said through the social network Twitter that "with much expectation, on April 12, I will receive, in the building of the National Archives of Washington DC, the most important delivery of declbadified documents relating to the last civil-military dictatorship undergone by our country ".

The Macri and Garavano announcements were corroborated by a statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs that "Argentina is waiting with great expectation this documentation, which will be a valuable contribution to the process of memory, truth and justice ".

He recalled that "on March 24, 2016, human rights organizations in our country asked the US President of the time, Barack Obama, to declbadify documents related to the last military dictatorship ".

"Argentina appreciate and value the effort The Foreign Ministry stressed that "documents on the last military dictatorship have been collected from 12 security and intelligence agencies," the Foreign Ministry said.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs recalled that "as part of the long process of dialogue and cooperation initiated by this Foreign Ministry in 2016 with the US Government, President Donald Trump announced that he would convey to the United States the following day. Argentina "the documentation. On April 27, 2017, Trump handed over to his Argentine counterpart, during an official visit to Washington, about 3,300 pages of intelligence documents and the newly declbadified State Department.

A year earlier, in March 2016, the then president, Barack Obama, announced in Buenos Aires that his government would declbadify the records of the last Argentine dictatorship and, a few months later, in August of the same year the first delivery of these documents was finalized. They have been claimed by human rights organizations, such as the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) and the grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, among others.