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Milei shuts down museums memorializing victims of Argentine dictatorship

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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

For the curious: 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 ) and the reggae version on the Vasos Vacios album: 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.

World Socialist Web Site? :D

> In a warning to workers internationally, since the fascist Milei’s government (...)

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

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...

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.

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.

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