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132 4 JUICIO Y CASTIGO (JUDGMENT AND PUNISHMENT), MURAL ON THE CALLE SUÁREZ. Ayolas Gral. Aráoz de Lamadrid Quinquela Martin, B. Brandsen A. del Valle d e l V a ll e Ib e r lu c e a Magallanes M in is t r o B r in C a b o t o A t e . B r o w n N e c o c h e a Olavarría P a l o s Pinzón Rocha M . R o d r ig u e z M . Ro dr ig ue z Suárez W. Villafañe A . L . Z o l e z z i 112 112 In 2007 a mural titled Juicio y Castigo (Judgment and punishment) was unveiled at 300 Suárez Street to pay tribute to the thirty-year struggle of the Founding Line of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo (see “Plaza de Mayo, ” p . 3) . The Germán Abdala Association of the Argentine Workers’ Central (Central de Trabajadores Argentinos ) initiated the work through the Trizkelión muralist group . The young artists who participated in the inauguration reclaimed mural painting as a form of popular expression and a tool for education, critique, and social transformation . “We wanted to illustrate society’s judgment, ” explains the muralist Pablo Murías . “That’s why we showed the Madres on top of a platform with the scales of justice, the People’s justice, and those responsible for the coup—military officers, priests, and businessmen—underneath . There is also a figure of a man with a shotgun being restrained by another man, which reflects hatred, but not vengeance . That is why the work is called Juicio y Castigo” (CTA Press Agency, October 11, 2007) . This commentary points to a common feature of Argentina’s human rights struggle: the victims of state terrorism have never taken justice into their own hands . On the contrary, they have always pressured the state to take responsibility for judging those accused of human rights violations . The mural also depicts different figures representing political and social groups who were implicated in state terror: generals from the Armed Forces , businessmen (see “Mercedes Benz, ” p . 31), agents from the Special Task Groups*, and a representative of the Church . 112 . Murals in La Boca LA BOCA LOCATION: MILITANTES POPULARES DETENIDOSDESAPARECIDOS DE LA BOCA (DISAPPEARED GRASSROOTS ACTIVISTS FROM LA BOCA) AT OLAVARRÍA AND GARIBALDI; JUICIO Y CASTIGO (JUDGMENT AND PUNISHMENT) AT SUÁREZ 300. TRANSPORTATION: BUSES: 20, 29, 33, 46, 53, 64, 86, 152, 159. 133 The work also includes part of the “Open Letter to the Military Junta, ” written by disappeared writer Rodolfo Walsh on the first anniversary of the coup (see “Corner of San Juan and Entre Rios, ” p . 96) . In this excerpt Walsh asks the Commanders in Chief of the three branches of the Armed Forces to reflect upon “the abyss into which they are leading the country with their illusion of winning a war that would only begin again in a new form even if they managed to kill the last guerrilla fighter . Because the causes driving the resistance of the Argentine people for over twenty years would not disappear, but would be aggravated by the memory of their abuses and the revelation of the atrocities committed . ” Another mural in the small square at Olavarría and Garibaldi Streets pays tribute to the neighborhood’s disappeared . A group of residents and social organizations from La Boca organized a group of volunteers to spend a day restoring the mural, which has been painted over with other forms of urban expressionon more than one occasion . This work evokes the name of the report by the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons* (CONADEP , Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas; see “Nunca Más Square and Cultural Center, p . 186) and includes a list of nineteen neighborhood residents who had been identified as disappeared . One group participating in these activities is Memoria de la Boca, which is part of the coordinating committee of the Commission of Neighborhoods for Remembrance and Justice . This group has been working for years in La Boca, reconstructing the life histories of neighborhood activists detained and disappeared or murdered by agents of state terrorism . Its goal is to dedicate paving stones to each and every one of the disappeared, to leave traces of these people in the places where they lived, worked, and were politically active . MURAL IN THE PLAZOLETA BOMBEROS VOLUNTARIOS, LA BOCA. ...

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