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a year ago my name was called a
newspaper article
in that article the mention of a
corpse of a family man of a
Bolívar family town and in that city
an address miter 327 and suddenly
the doors of the past creaked the
extended stretched territory of the
blood gave way to the memories to the
old pains to the questions without
answer
why so much mobilization for just
an article because miter 327 is my house
from the beginning
in the year 1975
we play with my family from bolivar to
the house of a yolanda woman that ended
of being widowed and whose children were
studying here in silver his children
Alberto and Mirta studied Alberto
medicine and architecture mirta
then went up from Holland decided to sell
your house we are your new
tenants and she starts to accompany
your children in college life
here in the city of silver 1975 a
complex year the city and the country
they debated in a spiral of violence
that threatened to devour lives and
stories extremist groups of both
left as right was disputed
in the street the spaces were disputed
of power
that spiral is going to grow and it’s going to have its
climax on March 24, 1976 with the
coup
things however did not improve at
otherwise protected paramilitary groups
in the impunity that a state gave them
that now supported them began to
investigate to mark people and even
prostrate mirta Yolanda’s youngest daughter
He was one of those people who sinned
committed mirta to put on as a boyfriend with a
boy marcelo who played in a
student group and accompany him to
hand out flyers the holidays that
organized the student center a
normal democratic life that still
she was very naive and they resisted
leave in the middle of the pressures of the
nascent military dictatorship however
along with her boyfriend was put under
suspicion
one day when she went out to do some
purchases in the car his brother had a
marriage the night I was in the car with
a faculty partner performs today
native of gualeguaychú never return
to the house where their mother was waiting for them
yolanda begins to despair ads of
night or early morning no longer return to
next day they also do not receive news
of any kind and then a
hard profession for police stations and for
judged by asking to see what was
the life of his daughter
it happened on December 17, 1976
yolanda mama mirta did not give up and she
they drew up acts they asked for habeas
corpus
Mirtha however did not appear to her
and his partner seems to be
I would have swallowed the earth
the dark power of dictatorship the
covered with his shadow disappeared
for yolanda his mother was a very
strong because imagine they had been
widow just a year ago and now his
daughter disappeared
then he returned to take refuge in his
friends in his neighborhood he went back to bolivar and
he returned to his family home that was now
mine hollanda sat in the living room of
my home
I looked at the corners with eyes
glazed
I only remember very well I did not understand
what was that woman who looked at the
corners of my house as if they were
own that stayed hours without wanting
leave later I understood that already
they received their in their minds the afternoons of
game of his daughter
the meetings of mirtha with their
fellow national college or
piano lessons from mirtha that yolanda
his mother listened with pleasure to
everything when I played for elizasu
he preferred hours Netherlands stayed in my
home
reviewing in his memory that life
family
I definitely truncated and lost
lets remember her yolanda weaving and
pulóveres para mirtha and buying the
gifts which kept very
neatly in a closet and a piece
that I reserved for when mirtha
back to the days however
months ago months ago
and milita did not return
I met her one day
according to a letter to my house I would have
about 89 years I thought very
independent already knew how to say my
memory address
the postman knocks on the door doing and I
says good letter for mirtha pérez
oaxaca lion did not see any brand perez
it shows me the address of the sender
if it was my house my 327 but I insist
must be wrong that there was no
no mirtha pérez to increase my
surprise and perplexity my mother goes out to
the door
receives the letter factly him
thank the postman and come in really
I had absolutely nothing
just discovered that in my house there was
someone else whom I had never seen
but obviously if my old
then start asking questions
uncomfortable and my old man answered how
could you imagine we were in full
dictatorship it was not easy to talk about the
missing out loud in no
place
then with the return of democracy and
we could say when some
correspondence for her is
disappeared from 83 to 2007
2008 almost all selections
nationals received ballots and citations
on behalf of mirtha pérez to my house
of course it was his last legal address in
my family
mirta passed to 0 one more a kind of
absent presence
yolanda came from his brother every so often
Sometimes his presence also came
could be perceived not in that story that
preceded in my house
in the presence our solanda mother
of marita never resigned herself to no
find her invested a lot of money
in unscrupulous people who
I proposed I promised you information and
there were several various myths about mirtha
they were turning 1 that had
gone underground together with a
guerrilla group
another who had been shot along with
nine companions in an open field
entertain and brand be another that was
living abroad with money from
a criminal organization
none of this convinced her mother she
I was sure it was reversed often
by their own means although yes some
sign of life would have given him but
answers did not arrive
mirta went on to swell that silent
army of people that we name as
missing is a disappeared
well the word disappeared is a
euphemism is a nice way to
mention something that is horrible to mention
that a father is missing a child that a
son is missing a father or brother
missing a brother an uncle
history is full of euphemisms
when there are powers or forces that want
build on the domination of
people
in argentina the word disappeared is
has used many times for example when
miter tries to explain the execution
of Dorrego does not even mention that it was
shot he said it was necessary to do it
disappear from the scene is not that
Dorrego was doing a casting in
a play and the director came
no boy said you do not serve not get down
sarmiento shot him will tell you the same
to miter about urquiza it is necessary that
disappear from the scene but knowing
the most sincere he clarifies that it is not that
does not want that urquiza I had any work
dramatic was clear or exile or the
gallows gives two options to miter thing
that will happen a few years later but
we could talk in him
international that is but the famous
final solution applied in germany
Nazi had a problem they should find
a solution and that solution has to
be definitive
Of course , that solution was never said
was to kill millions of people
systematically to the worst of the
dictators need a justification
we could also talk about the
strategic bombing that is a
part magical neighborhood bombing a
population and its bombings have
collateral damage that is a damage
collateral
it’s not that they wanted to hit him
war tank and they hit him a
semaphore no collateral damage is
they measure in human lives they are measured by a
bomb hit him a school or a hospital
or a residential neighborhood
unfortunately we have become accustomed to
use euphemisms to blur the
nature or the dignity of the people
and maybe in our time in the
now we have become accustomed to
use some kind of euphemism
I could mention some without thinking
too
he is an old man, he is useless and quality
of life is going to have is a black shit
it is a jet only a cluster of
cells is not a person is not a being
human is a grimy ignorant Indian
how many euphemisms we use to
blur the limits of humanity
that we want to manipulate or dominate or
even sometimes eliminate and we should
ask ourselves maybe yes accepting this
type of feminism we are not already in the
threshold of a new totalitarianism because
every time humanity has
allowed to blur the limits of its
own nature of their own dignity
in a similar one, humanity has always
taken a step towards totalitarianism
terrible
then such
is us accepting new euphemisms
we are moving unwittingly ago
a new dark age where the
humanity be one more time
manipulated manipulated and even to
times eliminated hollanda looked for mirtha
until the last of his days he died in
a geriatric here in silver
a few blocks from here
the woman who cares for her said that
even walking down the street and a
similar woman mirtha and pursued
he never lost hope
He died however without answers
when it seemed that I allow myself to
maybe it just went away to
his family when it seemed like he never went
to have an answer to this
questioning happened something unthinkable in
a cemetery of isidro casanova se
discovered a common grave in that grave
common ten corpses
the corpses were exhumed they were taken
samples
one of the corpses turned out to be the
elie saab today the faculty partner
from mirtha pérez then they started to
mobilize efforts and mirta tended a
hand from the grave and from the grave
Yolanda her mother and her posthumous effort
their remains were exhumed they took the
corresponding samples and in December
of 2015 39 years after its
disappearance
the mortal remains were identified
of mirtha pérez killed by the
back in a clearing in 13 penner and
bransen in December 1976 just three
days after his kidnapping this and
final
after 39 years of crying in the
corners of shouting in vain of asking
Answers in the air
mother and daughter could rest together
in peace
and me that live with that story my
home
the name of mirtha has turned me
family member who did not know what was his
of his life and that probably had me
forgotten that a person who had
to be in a place or to read this
Article
they exploited 40 years between their hands and
that’s why I wanted to talk about this for the
memory of yolanda and all mothers
who fight for their children for that mother
who are waiting for the girl who
left school I did not return home or
son who was traveling that was a march
and he did not return and for the memory of mirtha
and of all the innocent victims of
the ideologies or the trafficking of
people or the abuses and violence
and fundamentally because I’m
convinced that it is necessary that
let’s put human life back in the
center of all political effort or
economic or social or technological without
conditions without parentheses from the
belly to death natural
if we pretend that this humanity has
a future
thank you very much
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