Notes of memories in the construction of the "day Madryn ran out of bread"

Abstract

After the surrender of Argentine troops during the Malvinas War, on June 14, 1982, prisoners of war were embarked and sailed to the continent. Five days later, on June 19, 1982, the British cruiser Canberra docked at Site 3 of the Almirante Storni Dock in Puerto Madryn, where 4,172 soldiers landed. Despite the security fence implemented by the provincial authorities of the dictatorship, the people of Madryn, defying the armed forces, went out to the streets to receive the soldiers. This event is popularly known as the day Madryn ran out of bread. We will investigate the memories of residents, public authorities and war veterans in order to build a path that leads us to understand the reasons that led the population to demonstrate in the middle of the dictatorship and how that fact was remembered in the immediate post-war period and today.