MEMORY OF THE ARGENTINE MILITARY DICTATORSHIP: A CHALLENGE FOR HISTORY.

• Main Author: Maria Helena Capelato
• Format: Article
• Language: Portuguese
• Published: Universidade Federal de Pernambuco 2006-06-01
• Series: Clio: Revista de Pesquisa Histórica
• Subjects: Military Dictatorship; Justice; Memory; History
• Online Access: https://periodicos.ufpe.br/revistas/revistaclio/article/view/24758

The military dictatorship in force in Argentina between 1976 and 1983 left deep marks in the society due to the extreme violence put in practice by the representatives of the power. Democratic openness has faced the challenge of managing conflicts between those who defend the "victims" of the repression and those responsible for it. The punitive measures defined by the courts in the first moments of the opening and the attempts to annul them later produced debates that until today mobilize the Argentines. Justice, memory and history merge in this context and contemporary authors have shown concern about the "excesses of memory" that currently prevent the possibility of constructing the history of that period. The complex relationship between memory and history is the subject of this analysis that seeks to show ❑ the immo-ment between these two constituent elements of the historiographical production. It also seeks to reflect on the limits and possibilities of the so-called "History of the present time", which relies, above all, on the oral history as an indispensable tool in the reconstruction of the recent past.