A woman decorates her balcony with a white scarf, that the Madres de Plaza de Mayo wear to remember their disappeared children [Juan Mabromata/AFP]

Buenos Aires, Argentina – For many years now, Ofelia Agorio has spent March 24 in the embrace of the multitudes, marching in an annual demonstration to honour the victims of Argentina’s last military dictatorship and carrying a photo of her brother, Nelson, who was among them.

But this year she marked the day in the house she was born – the home she shared with Nelson – under mandatory quarantine with the rest of the country, repudiating the atrocities of the so-called Dirty War in the era of social distancing and the novel coronavirus.

“Isolation is heavy … but

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