"Soledad Nivoli's lawyer called her with the news that 49 years after he disappeared, investigators had found her father's remains. She collapsed in tears, hugging her eight-year-old son, Emiliano."
"We felt relief when we found those little bones, said Soledad. [Emiliano] no longer has a disappeared grandfather he has a grandfather who is dead, who was murdered, but that, finally, we can give him a proper sendoff."
"Argentina's far-right is not downplaying the repression or the dictatorship; rather, it is justifying it."
"Fifty years after the coup, Argentina's libertarian president, Javier Milei, describes the state terror as a war in which some excesses were committed."
Soledad Nivoli's father, Mario Alberto Nivoli, was forcibly taken by officers in 1976 during Argentina's military dictatorship, part of a campaign that led to 30,000 disappearances. Human rights groups like the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo have fought for truth regarding these crimes. Recently, Soledad learned that her father's remains were found, providing closure for her family. Despite this, Argentina's current president, Javier Milei, has downplayed the dictatorship's violence, prompting concerns about historical memory and justification of past atrocities.
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