Good comments above!

I also was waiting for someone to bring up the whole reason for the protest and explain what it was about. The inconvenience to travelers is unfortunate ... but you all shouldn't take it personally, rather consider the HISTORY of this and why it's so significant.

Obviously the crew here were not in Argentina in 1976 when the coup happened. I WAS. I saw (in person) hundreds rounded up in Buenos Aires over the month I was there. Day after day, all over the City. Huge crowds formed where ever the military trucks showed up. Thousands screamed at the soldiers as people were dragged from their apartments, crammed into waiting APC's at gunpoint. I expected the troops to open fire on the crowd at any moment. They didn't, but I took cover nonetheless ... but the Argentines got right in their face, guns to bellies. Brave mothers.

I saw the little Rat faced men with Machine guns and plain clothes in their 1960 Ford Falcons rush into apartments and haul people out. Time after time.

No one knew the fate of those taken at that moment ... but the wise ones knew their fate.

Most here on HUBB may know some of the facts of what happened ... roughly 30 thousand people were tortured and murdered, never seen again. For decades the mothers of the disappeared did an on going sit in Buenos Aires.
They adopted the name Desaparecidos.

I talked to dozens of Argentines before, during and after this period. Very dark time in Argentine history. At long last, at least some of the perpetrators have been brought to justice, but only a fraction of the guilty. Almost every Argentine I've met (Portenos mostly) either have a friend or relative or know someone who lost someone after the Coup.

The Desaparecidos need to be remembered. For many Argentines this event was a holocaust moment. It runs deep with many. It's not some minor political squabble or a simple regional protest for higher wages as riders usually see on the road in Latin America ... but a life altering event etched in Argentine history.

I'm amazed NO ONE here on HUBB realized how big a deal anything to do with this is for many Argentines.

Independent Lens . OUR DISAPPEARED/NUESTROS DESAPARECIDOS . The Film | PBS