Argentina's Macri Wages Cultural War to 'De-Kirchnerize' History
Argentina's Macri Wages Cultural War to 'De-Kirchnerize' History
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Demonstrators protest measures taken by Argentine President Mauricio Macri. | Photo: AFP
Published 14 May 2016
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The Museo del Bicentenario was inaugurated by former President Cristina Fernandez in 2011 to commemorate 200 years of Argentina's political history.
In an ongoing cultural and political war on Argentina’s former left-wing government, President Mauricio Macri has ordered the closure of a museum in Buenos Aires that showcases the country’s political history in order to have it “de-Kirchnerized,” the Argentine daily La Nacion reported Saturday.
The project of “depoliticizing” the Museo del Bicentenario, located behind the Casa Rosada presidential palace in the capital city, is set to begin Monday on Macri’s orders. The museum’s website has a message for visitors that the facility will be closed for “reforms.” It does not specify when the museum will reopen.
The effort will seek to remove pieces deemed too partisan for public display. It’s an odd move considering that the museum is designed to be an audiovisual display of 200 years of political history of the South American country.
The right-wing newspaper La Nacion, which supported the last dictatorship in Argentina and hailed Macri’s election in a controversial editorial as an end to “revenge” for the dictatorship years, characterized the Museo Bicentenario as a “self-celebratory homage” to Kirchnerism while watering down and sympathizing with the country’s dark history of oligarchic rule with reference to “stigmatized governments.”
Macri, whose family business Socma benefited enormously from the 1976 military coup when it increased over sixfold in size under the dictatorship, showed his sympathies for corporate complicity in dictatorship-era abuses earlier last year when he and his party opposed a government move to end impunity for dictatorship supporters.
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