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Tosco

Tosco

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This documentary revisits the harrowing history of Argentina's 1966 dictatorship under General Juan Carlos Onganía, a period that saw the rise of systemic repression and cultural censorship. In particular, the film focuses on Agustín Tosco, a prominent union leader who played a pivotal role in resisting the regime.

Under Onganía's government, economic instability and authoritarian policies worsened the country's social fabric, particularly through measures like wage freezes, inflation, and crackdowns on labor and academic freedoms.

Tosco's unwavering fight for justice against the regime's growing tyranny, coupled with his martyrdom in the years following his persecution, encapsulates the personal and collective costs of dissent under a dictatorship that, in its final years, would contribute to the larger pattern of state-sponsored violence that would culminate in the Dirty War.

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