Memories of Buenos Aires: Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina

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172 137 . University Campus, UBA In 1983 students and professors of the Faculty of Architecture , Design, and Urbanism (FADU) of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) created a commemorative flag bearing the photographs and names of disappeared Faculty members. On May 31, 2005, the Faculty opened up files pertaining to disappeared students , alumni, and professors to assist with the design of a new flag to replace the original. The Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences organized several activities to mark the coup’s thirtieth anniversary , including a roundtable discussion about the dictatorship ’s impact on the institution, and a ceremony to unveil a plaque dedicated to the thirty thousand victims of disappearance and to those who maintain the fight for human rights. A plaque was dedicated on September 23, 2005 in the third-floor biology laboratories. The event was organized by the Student Union by Pablo Spinella, son of former student Miguel Spinella, who disappeared along with Daniel Bendersky. In 1996 the Student Union had created a mural in Pavilion II bearing the names of all the disappeared students, professors, and staff. LOCATION: INTENDENTE GUIRALDES 2160, NUÑEZ 136. Bet-elTemple A plaque honoring disappeared Jews was unveiled in this temple on March 24, 2001, following an initiative by Rabbi Daniel Goldman. Daniel Filmus, then-Minister of Education for the City of Buenos Aires, attended the ceremony with members of the temple’s congregation . LOCATION: SUCRE 3338, BELGRANO 173 140.Tribute by Municipal District 12 On December 15, 2006, municipal authorities in District 12, representing Saavedra, Coghlan, Villa Urquiza, and Villa Pueyrredón, joined with neighborhood and human rights organizations to replace a plaque originally installed in 1981 by the military’s appointed mayor, Gen. Osvaldo Cacciatore in Sarmiento. The new plaque, installed along with a panel listing the names of disappeared residents, reads, “Our comrades join us to defend history from oblivion. ” LOCATION: PARQUE SARMIENTO, ENTER ON AV. R. BALBÍN, SAAVEDRA. 139. José Alfredo Madrid In late 2006 the Félix de Azara School hung a plaque and photograph honoring Madrid, a teacher kidnapped and disappeared on February 3, 1977 . The event finalized a student project about state terrorism that had been initiated in response to Buenos Aires City Council Law 547 (see “Disappeared Teachers Remembered in Their Schools, ” p. 204), passed in 2001. LOCATION: JOSE P. TAMPORINI 3948, COGHLAN 141. Colegiales Club Damián Cabandié was kidnapped on November 23, 1977 . A few hours later a Special Task Group* seized Alicia Alfonsín, who was five months pregnant at the time; she gave birth in the ESMA. Their son Juan recovered his identity in early 2004 (see p. 77). Alicia and Damián had first met in the Colegiales Club, where a plaque was hung to remember them. LOCATION: TEODORO GARCIA 2860, COLEGIALES At the National Center for High Performance Athletics (CENARD, Centro Nacional de Alto Rendimiento Deportivo ), two plaques honor detained and disappeared athletes: Miguel Sánchez (see p. 168), an affiliated athlete kidnapped on January 3, 1978, and Daniel Shapira , a tennis player disappeared on April 7 , 1977 . LOCATION: CRISOLOGO LARRALDE 1050, NUÑEZ 138. Tribute to Athletes in the CENARD “This page intentionally left blank” ...