Security & Strategic Review - June 2021

Every year on 20 May, Uruguay holds the ‘Marcha del Silencio’ – now in its 26^th year – during which the victims of the 1973-1985 military dictatorship are remembered. This year, however, a reminder of this dark history resurfaced a few weeks earlier, with the discovery of some documents dating from that period in a military barracks in Montevideo.