The Spanish language has a single word, , that can mean both “history” and “story.” In Argentina, where the military dictatorship that disappeared thirty thousand people between 1976 and 1983 remains prominent in collective memory, the reconstruction of democracy has depended on an ongoing public and political negotiation between ’s two meanings — one more stable and objective, the other more malleable. Revisiting, amending, and correcting official narratives is a familiar element of public disc