A Day for Memories
The
March 24 th, the anniversary of military coup in Argentina, is 32 years a very important day of action. He rejects impunity against the state terrorism and social and economic projects that have driven. For three years this date is a holiday in Argentina, became
Day of Memory. It is undeniable that this day is all that the Argentines must not forget to better develop our relationship with the future, and facing a possible repair, the fight against forgetting is that which remains the most concrete .
It is not easy to find the most relevant to the horror of those years is not forgotten. Keep the past is a difficult task when the signs that remain of terror are few, the culprits having meticulously applied to erase all traces and hide the truth.
But in recent years, places of remembrance have been established in Argentina, as the former School of the Navy, now the Museum of Memory
or a park built on the river La Plata full capital, which is now
Park Memory.
These places enroll people in the will never forget. These places have been cruel witnessed the horror that is
School of Marine where more than 5,000 people were tortured and taken to the disappearance, and it is in the river than thousand people were thrown to his death. Yet it took 30 years for the school stops working as a school and that the river becomes a place for Argentines collection, both houses of memory forever.
At the same time that public power has dedicated the memorial sites, the struggle to preserve the facts are seems incomplete. By observing the current political and social landscape, we are tempted to ask ourselves if there really is a memorandum of fact that are raised there are already more years of hue.
It remains unacceptable that after all this time, the company continues to demand the truth about the final destiny of the disappeared and that justice is unable to punish the guilty.
Day Memory shows a disconnect between rhetoric and concrete policies of the government.
Facts dictatorship seem to breed like missing the last 18 months of Julio Lopez, key witness in the trial one of the torturers, Miguel Etchecolatz. During this time the state structures responsible for intelligence and national security has not shown a particular interest in revealing the causes of his demise and find him.
Another case, the mysterious death of genocide prefect Héctor Febres, on the eve of her conviction. Nobody knows the cause. The prefect, apart have participated in the Navy during the dictatorship, was engaged for several years to suppress, with law enforcement, social protest movements.
And what about the fact that several more accomplices of the dictatorship continue to participate in the government of several Argentine provinces, with no government response to various accusations against the President?
But memory is not limited only among Argentines ... An ex-repressor is part of the French Defense Council. This is Mario Sandoval, known as "churrasco" recently appointed Director of Intelligence, he advises the French president on the release of FARC hostages. This "new pearl of the French president, has served in federal coordination during the dictatorship, which functioned as a detention center Underground and he also offered his services to the Navy.
It follows that it is difficult to fight to preserve the past alive. How many more years must we wait, the Argentines, cry for the Nunca Mas
finally be heard?
The day many Argentines struggling to keep the torch of memory, there are still cases against which we seem to be powerless, and sink into oblivion.