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Milei shuts down museums memorializing victims of Argentine dictatorship

14 points by cempaka 2y ago

garbagepatch 2y ago
They'll shut down the museums, but they'll never shut down the music Van al mar, van al mar Llanto y dolor, sufrimiento de un pueblo Se ahoga y se hunde en el mar
- davidw 2y ago
  For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Fabulosos_Cadillacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Fabulosos_Cadillacs The song is Manuel Santillan, El Leon. The earlier salsa version ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJVMKSOBqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJVMKSOBqs ) and the reggae version on the Vasos Vacios album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhsUcmV32HY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhsUcmV32HY It feels kind of weird to see that on HN and recognize it instantly. I'm just some random dude from Oregon, in the US who doesn't even really speak Spanish. But they're a good band! I feel lucky that I got to see them live, once.
dpc_01234 2y ago
World Socialist Web Site? :D > In a warning to workers internationally, since the fascist Milei’s government (...) :D :D :D
monero-xmr 2y ago
It appears he fired the staff funded by the taxpayers. Surely the socialists can fund the museum themselves?
- readthenotes1 2y ago
  The Jewish Holocaust Museum in my city of funded by people, charitable funds, and corporate donations. It seems like they should do something like that. If nothing else, monuments to government atrocities should not be run by the government...
  - david38 2y ago
    So you live in Germany? I would say it’s important to for the government to fund memorials of atrocities if the government was responsible for them, even if it’s an entirely new government.
    - spwa4 2y ago
      But how would they fare if AfD were to get elected ... that's the problem here, isn't it? Do you really want these musea to be subject to the whims of changing government officials, especially in Germany where sooner or later an extreme-right government will come to power, at least at a local level? Same is true for all of Europe, really. A lot of musea covering the many atrocities in East Germany have already disappeared. And even in the Berlin wall museum the reminders that the last leftists to rule there shot (many) people for the crime of trying to leave socialist utopia. In most Universities the academic victims of Soviet rule aren't remembered anymore. So this is not a theoretical concern.

14 points by cempaka 2y ago

They'll shut down the museums, but they'll never shut down the music Van al mar, van al mar Llanto y dolor, sufrimiento de un pueblo Se ahoga y se hunde en el mar

davidw 2y ago
For the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Fabulosos_Cadillacs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Fabulosos_Cadillacs The song is Manuel Santillan, El Leon. The earlier salsa version ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJVMKSOBqs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTJVMKSOBqs ) and the reggae version on the Vasos Vacios album: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhsUcmV32HY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhsUcmV32HY It feels kind of weird to see that on HN and recognize it instantly. I'm just some random dude from Oregon, in the US who doesn't even really speak Spanish. But they're a good band! I feel lucky that I got to see them live, once.

dpc_01234 2y ago

World Socialist Web Site? :D > In a warning to workers internationally, since the fascist Milei’s government (...) :D :D :D

monero-xmr 2y ago

It appears he fired the staff funded by the taxpayers. Surely the socialists can fund the museum themselves?

readthenotes1 2y ago
The Jewish Holocaust Museum in my city of funded by people, charitable funds, and corporate donations. It seems like they should do something like that. If nothing else, monuments to government atrocities should not be run by the government...
- david38 2y ago
  So you live in Germany? I would say it’s important to for the government to fund memorials of atrocities if the government was responsible for them, even if it’s an entirely new government.
  - spwa4 2y ago
    But how would they fare if AfD were to get elected ... that's the problem here, isn't it? Do you really want these musea to be subject to the whims of changing government officials, especially in Germany where sooner or later an extreme-right government will come to power, at least at a local level? Same is true for all of Europe, really. A lot of musea covering the many atrocities in East Germany have already disappeared. And even in the Berlin wall museum the reminders that the last leftists to rule there shot (many) people for the crime of trying to leave socialist utopia. In most Universities the academic victims of Soviet rule aren't remembered anymore. So this is not a theoretical concern.