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Starting in Caracas and Buenos Aires, criollos set up governing juntas across the Americas.
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But by 1890, the grandchildren of the veterans and juntas had to be taught about Cinco de Mayo, Hayes-Bautista said.
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Uniquely, Argentina not only appointed a truth commission which identified killers and torturers, but jailed the leaders of the military juntas themselves.
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In a democracy like Thailand, of course, it is not military juntas or multilateral agencies that are supposed to perform that function, but voters.
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The Cinco de Mayo victory was then memorialized through a network of Latino groups called "juntas patrioticas mejicanas, " or Mexican patriotic assemblies, mostly in California but also in Oregon, Nevada and Arizona, with 14, 000 members, Hayes-Bautista said.
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