Memories of Buenos Aires: Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina

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80 45. Faculty of Economics, UBA On March 27 , 1998, the Commission for the Reconstruction of Memory of the Faculty of Economics placed a list in the building’s central courtyard bearing the following title: “To our companions who died and disappeared, you shall always be present. ” This same commission dedicated a lecture hall to Horacio Angel Simona. LOCATION: AV. CORDOBA 2122, RECOLETA 46. Plaque in the FUBA On the twentieth anniversary of the last military coup, the Buenos Aires University Federation (FUBA, Federaci ón Universitaria de Buenos Aires) placed a bronze plaque just a few meters away from the Plaza Houssay (see p. 66) bearing the names of all those detained and disappeared from the University of Buenos Aires. LOCATION: URIBURU 920, RECOLETA 44. Faculty of Medicine, UBA Two placards in the cafeteria of the Faculty of Medicine remember the students who were disappeared from this institution. One, placed by the Union of Medical Sciences Students (CECiM), carries a list with the dates of the victims’ disappearances. The other, signed by the Human Rights Secretariat of the Union of Medical Students (CEM), displays the following sentence along with the list of detained and disappeared students: “They may cut all the flowers, but they cannot keep spring from coming. ” LOCATION: PARAGUAY 2155, RECOLETA 43. Faculty of Social Sciences, UBA In the Rodolfo Walsh (see p. 196) auditorium on the second floor of the main building on Marcelo T. de Alvear Avenue, several plaques were dedicated to the disappeared who studied and worked within this Faculty . A plaque in remembrance of Roberto Carri was placed in 1989. In 1995, another plaque was dedicated to the disappeared from the Department of Communications , and in 1998, one was placed to recall those disappeared from the Department of Social Work. A fourth plaque pays tribute to Lucía Cullen. LOCATION: AV. MARCELO T. DE ALVEAR, RECOLETA 81 50. Daniel Antokoletz – JorgeTranco Daniel and Jorge were neighbors in the building where, on April 19, 2008, paving stones were placed to pay tribute to them. The first stones laid in 2006 were replaced by the Popular Assembly of Palermo. Daniel was a thirty-nine-year-old lawyer and teacher kidnapped on November 10, 1976. Jorge worked in the Güemes Clinic, the site of his kidnapping on September 17 , 1976. LOCATION: FRAY JUSTO SANTA MARIA DE ORO 2366, PALERMO 49. María Claudia Falcone School No. 7 With 250 votes in favor, students and teachers chose to name Secondary School No. 7 after María Claudia Falcone, a victim of the notorious Night of the Pencils , an operation involving the abduction, torture, and disappearance of high school activists in September 1976. A memorial paving stone was placed on November 26, 2007; a second was placed in the school’s Yatay Street building. The Commission of Neighborhoods for Remembrance and Justice and the education community held activities and workshops. LOCATION: MALABIA 2148, PALERMO 48. Eduardo Goldar Parodi On March 10, 2007 , a plaque was placed as a tribute to Eduardo Goldar Parodi in the house where he lived with his wife, Nora Codina, and his young son. Eduardo was kidnapped in Palomar. His wife was home with her son when she was kidnapped. The boy was rescued by neighbors. Nora was later released. LOCATION: J. L. BORGES 2252, PALERMO 47 . Cristián Caretti Cristián was one of the founders of the Union of Secondary School Students* (UES, Unión de Estudiantes Secundarios) in the 1970s. The paving stone dedicated in his memory bears the following inscription: “This is where Cristián Caretti, the ‘Gringo,’ was born and lived. Political activist disappeared by state terrorism on September 14, 1976. Family and friends. Neighborhoods for Remembrance and Justice. ” LOCATION: URIARTE 2269, PALERMO 82 54. EduardoTejedor Eduardo was kidnapped on May 3, 1978, as he was leaving the República de Irán School, where he taught. Twenty-eight years old at the time, he was a teacher and social worker. The Commission of Neighborhoods for Remembrance and Justice placed a paving stone as a tribute to him. LOCATION: CABRERA 3484, RECOLETA 53. MaríaTeresa Barvich “Tere” was twenty-four years old when she was murdered in her home. During this action, her attackers kidnapped an injured companion and arrested three more. A paving stone was placed in her memory on November 4, 2007 , thirty-two years after her murder, in the presence of her mother, Ema...