The Vanishing: How Argentina Erased Its Black History

"There are no Black people in Argentina." It's the line every Argentine repeats with total confidence — and it's a lie built by design.

In the 1800s, up to half of Buenos Aires was Black. Today the country calls itself the "whitest nation in Latin America." What happened in between wasn't an accident — it was policy: forced conscription that sent Black men to die on the frontlines, disease left to spread unchecked in Black neighborhoods, and a census that simply stopped counting.

THE VANISHING uncovers how a nation erased an entire people from its history — and how, decades later, the truth is fighting its way back.

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