Campo de Mayo, the biggest military base in metropolitan Buenos Aires and one of the largest in the country, would be converted into a national park under a proposal announced recently by Argentine President Mauricio Macri. Located 30 kilometers (19 miles) from the national capital, the 4,000-hectare (9,900-acre) base is associated with political turbulence and human rights violations. In 1930, the country’s first military coup was launched from Campo de Mayo. And in the 1970s, it was the site of one of the largest clandestine centers of imprisonment and torture operated by the military regime then prosecuting the so-called “dirty war” on terrorism. The more recent of those two historical chapters has come into play in debate about the park proposal. The... [Log in to read more]