On the 50th anniversary of the 1976 military coup, thousands marched from the ex-ESMA to Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, stopping at Cristina Kirchner's home where she greeted from the balcony with a white handkerchief. Human rights groups read documents demanding answers for the 30,000 disappeared and chanted 'Cristina libre'. Similar mobilizations took place nationwide, as the Government released a video on 'complete memory'.
On March 24, 2026, marking 50 years since the 1976 civic-military coup, over 40,000 La Cámpora militants began a 16-kilometer march at 9 a.m. from the ex-ESMA in Núñez toward Plaza de Mayo. The column stopped at San José 1111, where Cristina Kirchner, serving a six-year house arrest sentence, appeared on the balcony, greeted the crowd, and displayed a white handkerchief reading 'Memoria, Verdad y Justicia'. Protesters demanded her freedom with chants of 'Cristina Libre' and criticized Javier Milei's Government for policies akin to the dictatorship's, as Mayra Mendoza compared the current model to the 'planned misery' of that era and called Kirchner 'a government program' herself. Máximo Kirchner denounced a model of 'dehumanization' and a 'judicial party' holding her 'kidnapped'. Horacio Pietragalla targeted the Government's 'negationist discourse' and 'lawfare' as the successor to military coups. Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof stated the full plazas respond to dictatorship-like economic policies and that 'the future is not Milei's, the future is the Argentine people's'.
