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Tom Phillips and Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires

Argentina’s far-right frontrunner reopens wounds of dictatorship

Ricardo Coquet stands outside the former Escuela Mecánica de la Armada building, which served as a torture and death camp during Argentina’s dictatorship.
Ricardo Coquet stands outside the former Escuela Mecánica de la Armada building, which served as a torture and death camp during Argentina’s 1976-83 dictatorship. Photograph: Anabela Gilardone/The Guardian

A sign outside the subterranean torture chamber welcomed victims to “The Avenue of Happiness”.

A gramophone played a rock song on loop to muffle their screams: (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction by the Rolling Stones.

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