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29 1 UBICACIÓN: COSTANERA NORTE A METROS DE CIUDAD UNIVERSITARIA. MONTSERRAT LOCATION: AZOPARDO 651 TRANSPORTATION: BUSES: 2, 4, 20, 33, 61, 62, 64, 74, 93, 105, 111, 129, 130, 143, 152, 159, 195. TRAMWAY STATION: INDEPENDENCIA. Azo par do Balca rce Bolívar Chile Méjico Venezuela Av. Belgrano Moreno A Villaflor Jua na Ma nso Olg a Cos set tini Aim e Pan e Estados Unidos Carlos Calvo Av. Independencia 5 de julio Defen sa J. M. Giuffra Av. Ing. Hue rgo Av. Paseo Colón Perú San Lorenzo 4 Est. Belgrano Est. Independencia TRA NVÍ A DEL EST E 4 . Azopardo Garage “What is a disappeared person? As long as he remains disappeared, he is an unknown quantity . If he were to reappear, he might be treated in one way . If the disappearance were to be confirmed by death, then he would be treated another way . Yet as long as he is disappeared, there is no certainty . He is unknown, a disappeared person . He has no existence; he is neither dead nor alive . He is disappeared ” [AA] . General Jorge Rafael Videla, leader of the military junta from 1976 to 1981, used these words in a television interview to define the condition of thousands of people who had been detained and disappeared . He made clear that the state terror apparatus sought to erase its victims through the destruction of their identities . While Videla was thus characterizing the situation of the disappeared, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (see “Plaza de Mayo, ” p . 3) were demanding that their sons and daughters be released alive . As they marched they carried placards and banners, many of these bearing photographs from their children’s national identity cards . While the state denied the existence of the disappeared, the mothers combated that denial with the very photographs this state had used to assign these people an identity . Family members referred indirectly to the dictatorship’s repressive practices through the use of these identification portraits; such photographs serve as devices to normalize and enumerate individuals within repressive societies . A Clandestine Detention Center operated from October 1976 to February 1977 in the building on Azopardo THE FEDERAL POLICE DOCUMENTATION CENTER CURRENTLY OPERATES IN THE FORMER CLANDESTINE DETENTION CENTER. 30 Street which until recently served as the Documentation Center of the Argentine Federal Police, where national identification cards and passports were processed . At that time, this building at 651 Azopardo operated as the automotive maintenance shop of the Bureau of Federal Security (see p . 17) . “They kidnapped me along with Patricio Rice, who was a priest at the time . I was working with Carlos Mugica (see “Chapel of Christ the Laborer . Father Carlos Mugica, ” p . 25) . . . . Suddenly a van stopped . There is a neighborhood of police housing at the exit to the Soldati shantytown; the subsidized housing blocks were right across the street . It was a civilian van . A guy got out, started shouting at us, and fired shots at Patricio’s feet . . . . Just then another person came out of the police housing complex . They quickly took my handbag and shoved us into the van” [AO .0195] . Fátima Cabrera is a survivor of the Clandestine Detention Center that operated inside the Federal Police facilities known as the Azopardo Garage and Coordinaci ón Federal . After kidnapping her right off the street, the police took her and Patricio Rice to the Villa Soldati police station (see “Police stations as sites of illegal detention, ” p . 255) . They immediately began to interrogate them under torture at the station without processing them: “‘What had we been doing in the shantytown? Who were we with?’ And they just got more and more rough . They separated us to ask us questions separately . One of them hit me when I tried to explain something . It started to get really violent . And I just kept asking them to go to my house and let my mother know where I was . And then we found out they were going to move us somewhere else” [AO] . They moved them from the police station to the Azopardo Garage . “When we got there, they took Patricio out first, leaving me in the car a while . The first thing I saw there was a soldier, a conscript . I could hear them asking Patricio very harsh questions . They threw me onto the floor and put a gun to my temple . . . . It was so terrible . And shortly after that they started torturing us . They blindfolded and hooded us . ” The first...

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