LETTER FROM BUENOS AIRES

"There are light secrets/that make you fly away/and there are secrets so heavy/that they prevent you from breathing/secrets that hurt shouldn't be kept." The song by Canticuénticos, an Argentine children's music group, continues in a gentle voice accompanied by light percussion, "I'm here, I want to help you/I know you're telling the truth."

The video clip for the song "Hay secretos" ("There are secrets") features images that are both clear and poetic, inviting young children to speak up, assuring them that they will be heard. Its soothing melody allows Argentine schools to work on detecting violence and sexual abuse. The link to the video can be found on the educational platform Educ.ar – a toolbox for teachers – specifically under the "comprehensive sexual education" section. This educational module, which has been compulsory in both public and private schools since 2006, covers topics such as violence prevention, contraceptive methods and consent.

In January 2025, in the middle of the summer vacation in the Southern Hemisphere, the song was removed from the site, with parts of it cut. "We chose [to keep] non-political content based on the biological aspect, which is the family. After that, at home, families can teach whatever they want, but the state has no role in these matters," the Ministry of Human Capital, to which the Secretariat of Education reports, explained to the newspaper La Nación on January 9, without specifying which references had been removed.

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