* Published in The Independent on 6 January 2022 (Long Reads) Ten years have passed since the death of General Domingo Bussi. The general was a member of the Argentine army, and perhaps one of the worst criminals of the last military dictatorship that devastated Argentina between 1976 and 1983 – a dictatorship characterised by kidnapping, torture and the execution of tens of thousands of citizens, the disappeared. Among them was my father, Maximo Jaroslavsky. Bussi’s story contains a tragic lesson that Argentine society, like so many others, seems to have learnt and then forgotten again. The Last Dictatorship “Providence has placed upon the army the duty to govern, from the presidency, down to administering a trade union” Monsignor Bonamín, 10 October 1976. During the 20th century, Argentina suffered six coups d’etat. The army developed a vision of itself as “supervisors” with a deep contempt for civil society, a role encouraged by the country’s most powerful economic sectors and g
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