On a new anniversary on March 24, the ideological internality of the Casa Rosada added a chapter of significant silences and differentiating gestures. While the hard core of the national government, under the discursive tutelage of Javier Milei and Victoria Villarruel, reinforced the commitment to the concept of “full story” —a narrative that seeks to equate the violence and review the Alfonsinist consensus on State terrorism—, Patricia Bullrich He chose his own path.
Through her social networks, the Minister of Security published a message that became a piece of internal dissidence. “Violence and terror can never be the weapon to impose ideas. Democracy and the Republic are the basis on which everything is built,” he stated. In his words there was no trace of the “revisionist” terminology that the Executive disseminated through its official channels.
The weight of the past
This discursive moderation does not seem accidental. For Bullrich, the anniversary of the 1976 coup is a minefield of biographical contradictions. His past as a militant in the Peronist Youtha grassroots organization of Montoneros, places it in an uncomfortable place compared to the official video that the Government prepared for the date, where special emphasis is placed on the actions of armed organizations.
While the official spot of the Presidency insists on telling “what was not said”, Bullrich preferred to take refuge in a institutional political correctnessavoiding validating the theory of the two demons in its crudest version. For the minister, it seems to be safer to shield herself in the defense of the “Republic” than to be trapped in a dialectic of the 70s that, inevitably, ends up pointing to her own youthful career.
A crack in the cabinet
Bullrich’s omission is not only a gesture of moderation, but an act of political survival. While the Casa Rosada video seeks to rescue the victims of the guerrilla from oblivion, the minister avoids stirring up a hornet’s nest that had her as a protagonist: her past in the Peronist Youthunder the shadow of his brother-in-law Rodolfo Galimbertiplaces her on the side that the story of the “complete truth” today tries to put on the bench.
This discursive pirouette exposes the official’s crossroads: the current champion of the iron fist prefers the refuge of democratic correction rather than validating a historical revision that, ultimately, would end up pointing against her own seventies biography.
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