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38 1 LOCATION: BV. AZUCENA VILLAFLOR AND JUANA MANSO TRANSPORTATION: BUSES: 2, 4, 20, 22, 33, 56, 61, 62, 64, 74, 93, 105, 111, 126, 129, 130, 143, 152, 159, 195. TRAMWAY STATION: BELGRANO. 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 7 Est. Belgrano Est. Independencia TRA NVÍ A DEL EST E PUERTO MADERO 7 . Disappeared Port Workers A plaque was dedicated on April 30, 2004 in the small square at the intersection of Azucena Villaflor Boulevard (see “Plaza de Mayo, ” p . 3) and Juana Manso Street to honor disappeared workers from the Port of Buenos . A monument was erected the following year on the site of a former workers ’ canteen to commemorate disappeared dockworkers from the union of the Port of Buenos Aires . Artist Omar Gasparini created the sculpture using old iron bars and pieces from boats and cranes . That same day a plaque was dedicated in honor of Eduardo de Pedro, José Manuel Moreno, Francisco Pana, Rubén Correa, and Osvaldo Camarotti, employees of the General Port Administration (AGP , Administración General de Puertos), kidnapped in 1977 and 1978 because of their trade union activities . Trade unionists Odila Casella was kidnapped along with her husband Eduardo de Pedro at three o’clock in the morning on June 29, 1977 . In her testimony she recalls, “It was something we had been sensing was going to happen because they had been following us for a week . . . . From the moment they took us out of the house, I never saw him again . ” Odila was later released . “Eduardo was already working in the port in 1974, ” continues Odila, “and a new union movement had formed there to challenge the one that was in place . He was one of the sector delegates; and it was precisely the delegates representing the different sectors within this new union movement in the port who were disappeared . . . . The first one to disappear had been fired a year earlier; he was a sector delegate and he was going to be the union’s general secretary . He disappeared in February 1977 . . . . When the military authorities INAUGURATION CEREMONY FOR THE SCULPTURE, NOVEMBER 17, 2005. 39 intervened in the port administration, a fellow union member came to live in our house for a year . He is now disappeared . . . . One of the other men was taken directly from his workplace in the New Port (Puerto Nuevo)” [AO] . The Nunca más report indicated that 30 .2 percent of the cases of disappeared persons brought to the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons* (CONADEP , Comisión Nacional sobre la Desaparición de Personas) were bluecollar workers; another 17 .9 percent were white-collar employees . These figures followed from the military’s “Continued Offensive Against Subversion . ” This decree ’s “Mission” section ordered that “the Military shall take action selectively in industrial establishments and State corporations . . . to prevent and neutralize labor conflicts provoked or exploited by subversive forces, in order to prevent mass unrest and uprisings and to contribute to the effective operation of the country’s productive apparatus” (CONADEP , 1984) . This plan accounts for the disappearance of delegates from the union of Buenos Aires port workers and was also applied against other labor organizations such as the autoworkers’ union, SMATA (Sindicato de Mecánicos y Afines del Transporte Automotor); the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic, or CTERA (see “Disappeared teachers, ” p . 204); and the electrical workers’ union, Luz y Fuerza . Workers were disappeared from industrial establishments like the Ford factory in General Pacheco (see “Mercedes Benz, ” p . 31), the Mestrina Shipyards in the northern part of the province of Buenos Aires, and the Astarsa Shipyards in San Fernando . The dictatorship singled out the union movement’s most militant sectors; disappearances of labor activists continued from 1976 through 1978 . Most of these shop-floor union activists remain disappeared today . PLAQUE LOCATED NEXT TO THE MONUMENT. ...

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