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105 3 SAN CRISTÓBAL LOCATION: AV. SAN JUAN AND SARANDÍ TRANSPORTATION: BUSES: 4, 6, 12, 23, 37, 50, 53, 84, 96, 126, 129, 150, 151. SUBWAY STATION: ENTRE RÍOS (E LINE). LÍNEA E Estados Unidos Carlos Calvo Humberto I Av. San Juan Cochabamba Constitución Pavón Av. Independencia 68 Est. Pichincha Est. Entre Ríos Pic hin ch inc ha Ma the u Alb ert i A v. J u ju y Pa sc o Rin cón Sa ran dí Co mb . de los Po zo s Av. Entre Ríos Solís Virrey Ceballos On March 19, 2007 , the association San Cristobal Residents Against Impunity (Vecinos de San Cristóbal contra la Impunidad) placed a ceramic plaque to honor Jorge Julio López and demand that he be found alive . The tile work was erected on the facade of the Miramar Bar at the corner of Avenida San Juan and Sarandí Sreet . It was made by workers from the Factory without Bosses (FaSinPat , or Fábrica sin Patrones), a workercontrolled factory located in Neuquén that each year produces a ceramic tile with a sociopolitical theme . López was kidnapped twice, the first time by members of the State Security Forces on October 27 , 1976, during the last military dictatorship . The circumstances of the second kidnapping remain unclear, but the assailants were allegedly linked to the Buenos Aires provincial police . It occurred on September 18, 2006, a few months before the twenty-third anniversary of the return to democracy in Argentina . López, disappeared under a democratic government, was kidnapped after testifying in a trial against people accused of participating in the repression of the military dictatorship . Detained and disappeared during the dictatorship At the time of his first captivity, López was disappeared and detained in the Clandestine Detention Center known as the Pozo de Arana* (Arana Pit), located within the Military Detachment of the Anti-Rustling Department of the provincial police, on the outskirts of the city of La Plata, Buenos Aires Province . From there he was moved to Police Stations 5 and 8 in La Plata*, and later to Prison Unit No . 9 in the same city . He was released on July 25, 1979 . When he testified in the trial against the man responsible for his first disappearance , López made the following remarks about his illegal 68 .Tribute to Jorge Julio López in the Miramar Bar MIRAMAR BAR. CERAMIC PLAQUE DEMANDING THAT LÓPEZ BE RETURNED ALIVE. 106 detention: “I think they kidnapped me because I helped the boys [referring to members of the Montonero guerrilla movement] . I collaborated with those who went out into the streets (after the coup of March 24), not with the leaders like [Mario] Firmenich who walked away with the organization’s money” (Clarín, September 23, 2006) . López had arrived in La Plata from the town of General Villegas, in the north of the province of Buenos Aires . He lived in the neighborhood of Los Hornos in the mid-1970s and worked in construction . As a Peronist militant, he participated from 1974 to 1976 on the fringes of the Montonero* movement, more precisely in a grassroots movement known as the Unidad Básica Pablo Maestre . There he met Patricia Dell’Orto and Ambrosio De Marco, a married couple who were kidnapped one week before him and with whom he shared time in captivity . The man in charge of the sites where López was detained during this first period of captivity was Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz, Director of Investigations of the Buenos Aires Police from 1976 to 1977 . Etchecolatz directed twenty-one Clandestine Detention Centers and worked as the right-hand man of General Ramón Camps, Chief of Police during the same period . Disappeared under democracy On June 20, 2006, the Federal Oral Tribunal No . 1 of La Plata initiated legal proceedings against Etchecolatz . It was one of the first human rights trials to take place in the country after the National Congress overturned the so-called impunity laws (the Full Stop Law* and the Law of Due Obedience*) in 2003 . During the trial Jorge Julio López described in detail how he had been tortured by Etchecolatz and others . He also testified that the Special Task Group* under Etchecolatz’s control murdered Patricia Dell’Orto and Ambrosio de Marco . MURAL ON THE AV. DE MAYO NEAR THE PLAZA DE MAYO. “DISAPPEARED UNDER DEMOCRACY.” STENCIL ON THE AV. DE MAYO. STENCIL PORTRAIT...

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