Central Buenos Aires was paralyzed for hours as massive crowds gathered for one of the largest March 24 "Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice" protests in recent years, AFP journalists saw.
The normally festive, family friendly event was also joined by major trade unions, as anger rises over libertarian Milei's austerity measures put in place to fight against the country's spiraling inflation.
Protesters carried signs with slogans such as "30,000 reasons to defend the homeland"—a reference to the up to 30,000 victims estimated to have died or disappeared in the 1976-83 junta's so-called "dirty war" on suspected political dissidents, notably on the left.
But that number has been contested by Milei, a political outsider and self-described "anarcho-capitalist" who has instead preferred estimates of around 9,000 victims, in what critics say is a whitewashing of history.
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