 For more videos on people's struggles, please subscribe to our YouTube channel. Hello and welcome back to Around the World in 8 minutes where we at People's Dispatch are with you every week to bring you stories of people engaged in struggle across the world. For our first story, we take you to Argentina, March 24 marked 45 years since the US-backed military coup in Argentina, which installed the bloodiest dictatorship in the history of the country. In 2002, the Argentine Congress declared that this tragic day would be remembered as the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice. In 2006, it was declared a public national holiday in Argentina. On March 24, 1976, a right-wing coup overthrew the constitutional government of Isabel Martínez de Perón and replaced it with a military junta, headed by General Jorge Rafael Videla, Admiral Emilio Eduardo Masera and Brigadier General Orlando Ramón Agosti. The regime remained in power until the return of democracy in the country on December 10, 1983. During the seven years of dictatorship, over 30,000 students, activists, trade unionists, writers, journalists and artists were kidnapped, tortured and disappeared. Since 1986, every year on March 24, hundreds of thousands of citizens, relatives of the disappeared people, members of several social movements, human rights organizations and political groups of Argentina march to the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires to remember the 30,000 disappeared people and demand justice for the crimes against humanity committed by the state. This was the second year in a row that the day's traditional marches and commemorations could not take place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Social and political movements in the country as well as civil society organizations took to social media to condemn the atrocities committed by the dictatorship and organized small symbolic actions in plazas and squares across the country, planting trees and reciting the names of the 30,000 comrades that were tortured and disappeared. Our partners in Argentina ARG Medio spoke to Nora Cortinas, one of the founders of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, an organization formed during the dictatorship in response to the state terrorism and repression. She spoke about the coup in 1976 and the forced disappearance of El San Gustavo. And the mother of Paco, who was in contact with us, tells us that he had been able to communicate saying that night on March 24, they received sticks everywhere, this very strong repression in the criminal. So we saw terrible days that were coming and that we didn't know what to expect, right? Well, there we found out that the biggest punishment was inside the criminals. Let's say that, as the military said goodbye, they made a repression, persecution, coups, well, then we saw, but not so much of what was coming, not so much, not that there were going to be thousands and thousands of disappearances with torture, with people who were thrown into the river. We didn't think that that was going to come in that way. So those days were cruel and they were of a lot of uncertainty. Of course, we still didn't know the Mothers, we didn't know the streets, we hadn't started the forced disappearance massively, compulsively, indiscriminately. Then the actions of the military, the arrests, the prepotency, taking people always hitting them, so they were older, they were going to look for our children, they would go to the father, to the grandfather, and always with violence. Well, I remember that, and from there it was until Gustavo arrived, which was a year later, it was like a whirlpool of us to learn about repression and repression. Gustavo, with Anna, had to go to live in that destiny so that he could be saved from the persecution of the informer. And well, they took a year until the 15th of April, in 1977, they took Gustavo and disappeared from that moment. How were you and the rest of the family related to Gustavo's militancy? How did you see him? How did you perceive him? Well, we were afraid, he went to the villa, to the villa of 1931, he had decided to support the social movements, but it turns out that he had already disappeared. No, they had killed Carlos Mujica on the 11th of May 1974, that is, that he was already in the cold air, he was already the sign of what was going to come to be repression, but never imagining, never, that it was going to be like that. So what I say is that neither they knew, the militants, that they were going to deploy a repression operation, first it was in 1975, the independence operation in Tucumán, and there we saw the ferocity, until today, that is being uncovered, the ferocity of the military, to eliminate all that youth who fought to change the world. We now go to Algeria where the Supreme Court ordered a retrial in the case of the well-known journalist Khalid Rareni. Rareni was slapped with trumped-up arbitrary charges and was sentenced to a three-year prison term last year, which was reduced to two years on appeal. Rareni's conviction for covering the historic Hiraq movement protests in the country was widely condemned by human rights groups, Hiraq movement figures and press freedom organizations such as reporters without borders. After the news broke, Rareni expressed the hope that the new trial will correct the two trials that he faced. He also expressed disappointment at the country's highest court not ordering the proceedings against him to end and forcing him to go through a third trial in less than a year. Rareni, who is a correspondent with French-language TV5 Monde and RSF, was arrested last year in March and was detained without charge or trial while he was covering the Hiraq movement demonstrations in the country. In 2019, the movement successfully forced the longtime president Abdelaziz Bouteflika to resign after being in power for 20 years. Rareni was subsequently charged with inciting and unarmed gathering and endangering national unity. The so-called evidence was social media pos expressing concern for the country's political system. He had also expressed support for the Hiraq movement and for the opposition political parties. He was also charged with criticizing the subsequent government and the president of Algeria Abdelmajid Tibune for highlighting issues of misgovernance, corruption and political apathy, which were increasingly becoming endemic to the country. During his detention and trial, a massive national and international campaign was organized by activist journalists and human rights groups, who staged rallies in solidarity. According to latest data from the Algerian National Commission for the Liberation of Detainees, around 30 Algerians are still being held in prison for their participation in the Hiraq movement or protest movements, despite the government recently releasing 40 political prisoners in a seemingly conciliatory gesture. Finally, we take you to the United States, where anti-racist activists who have faced heavy state persecution finally received some good news. Activists from the Part of Socialism and Liberation, Lilian House, Joel Northam and Elisa Lucero had the first degree kidnapping charges against them dropped. They were arrested on September 17 in heavy militarized police raids along with activists Terence Roberts and Russell Rutch. They were then put in jail for eight days while awaiting bail and slapped with heavy charges, including first degree kidnapping, inciting a riot, participating in the riot and attempting to influence a public servant. Together, these charges could mean a prison sentence of around 50 years. On Thursday, March 25, a judge in a pretrial hearing decided to drop the first degree kidnapping charges against the activists, arguing that the demonstration on July 3, 2020, which the charges are connected to, was a peaceful protest. The organizers were in the forefront demanding justice for Elijah McLean, a 23-year-old who was murdered by officers from the Aurora Police Department, a city next to Denver, on August 24, 2019. No police officers have been arrested for the murder to allow, and the District Attorney Dave Young had announced on June 25, 2020 that there was not enough evidence to rule McLean's death, a homicide, and punish those involved in that line. The activists and supporters are hopeful that this ruling is the first of many and the rest of the bogus charges will also be dropped, and that first and foremost those who committed the crime of killing Elijah McLean will be brought to justice. And this is all the time we have. For now, keep watching People's Dispatch.