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A park for the Memory

R arely we went to a park with a spirit of collection and whose walk leaves a knot in his throat, silencing all the words, silence is the ideal companion along the journey. It is the feeling produced by the visit of Memory Park in Buenos Aires. This is a public space created with the objective to build, recover and preserve the collective memory in order to participate in what rights violations Rights not happen again.
This park, which encompasses 14 acres of parkland on the banks of the river La Plata, was implemented in 2001 at the request of a committee composed of organizations of human right, and Great Mothers Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, the familiar and the missing members of the city government of Buenos Aires. The objective is to obtain a monument to honor the victims of state terrorism.
The park in this way a single Argentine testimonial value. It hosts the Monument to the Victims of Terror state, formed by four stelae giving the form of a cut, an open wound on a lawn that ends up in river. Plaques on the graves contain the names of detainees-disappeared and murdered during the years that start from "the Cordobazo" (1969) until the end of military dictatorship (1983).
This monument is the first memorial dedicated to Argentina to honor victims of the worst years of the country. It represents the wound mark on the Argentine territory a pain that will always be present. The idea is to traverse it and reach the river that the full value of the symbol, because it is in these waters that victims been laid by the "death flights".
bodies absent, this park honors the names of those who fought for a better country. Similarly, sculptures of Argentine and international artists are erected in a part of the park so that the art is also involved in testimony.
There were few places in the Argentine capital for this project because, as is usually understood, the city has been built with enough particularity troubling to turn his back to the great river. The facts are there, we now confront, the construction of this park that for the first time the city of Buenos Aires turns to face its river.