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Tom Phillips and Uki Goñi in Buenos Aires

Argentinians urged to reject ‘dictatorial’ Milei by offspring of regime torturers

The Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Milei has made challenging the decades-long consensus over the dictatorship a major part of his campaign.
The Argentinian presidential candidate Javier Milei has made challenging the decades-long consensus over the dictatorship a big part of his campaign. Photograph: Matias Baglietto/Reuters

The offspring of military officials convicted of crimes against humanity and genocide during Argentina’s dictatorship have urged voters not to back the far-right candidate Javier Milei in the imminent election, warning that the country’s very democracy is in danger.

In an open letter published ahead of the 19 November run-off between Milei and his centrist rival, Sergio Massa, the Historias Desobedientes (Disobedient Stories) collective voiced “great concern” that the rightwing radical and his running mate Victoria Villarruel had a chance of winning power.

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