behind the
you ever imagined how
call or name someone who does not have
name or surname voice that word that
identifies us Argentines
I’m thinking of someone else
which has no name and surname
thinking about that someone who lost his
name and his last name that disappeared his
name and last name your identity
now in argentina is disappearing
people in the world
now at this moment thousands of people
disappear some are missing
Live traffic products are
children stealing babies traffic from
illegal adoptions
others are missing who have died
kidnappings narcoviolence wars
terrorist attacks natural accidents
and others not so natural is necessary to
they return their identity rewrite
your name and your last name because all
we have an identity
we have an identity an identity
effective individual cultural family
from the country group but we also have
a genetic identity is written in
our genes our identity our
genome the human genome is
constituted by four letters that
repeated three billion times
incredible but they are almost the same almost
the same to be exact our genomes
99.9 percent identical between us
only 0 1 percent of our
genome allows to distinguish no
identified
Now comes the 1% 0 3,000 million
letters is no less than 3 million
letters and that’s a number that can
describe some books with 3 million
of letters and that’s about
use it to the letters of our
genome rewrite the letters of the name
and last names of those who lost their
identity as we do
using genetics comparing
identify necessarily is to compare to
I went to compare a father and son
to know if they are linked in that
kinship I have to compare others and
know that there is a proportion of those
letters that have in common agreement are
they separate you in the 80s
I was working in the hospital
clinics in the genetics of
transplants looking for the maximum
genetic compatibility between donors
and organ recipients to avoid the
rejection of the graft and you
they will ask and what does that have to do with
the identity has to see and a lot and
how much because our body our
immune system is deeply
xenophobe of oz is self-recognized as
just tolerated and rejects everything
strange and that’s why we reject a virus or
a bacterium
how much more are we going to reject an organ
whole
that’s why we look for those compatibilities
to avoid those rejections but also
those genes allowed us just
because we did it among family members
related relatives analyze and establish
kinship ties
I had a problem in the 80s
we need a living cell
the two people that we are going to compare not
we could analyze a bone
will be a stumbling block but a decade
then a revolution came to the
laboratories
now we could compare molecules
we could extract molecule from a
cell alive or dead and compared
then now and we took a step towards
go ahead and we could then
identifying a dead cell within
a body or a bone and we won
some experience
a decade later precisely in the
year 2003 something happened to me changed me the
life largely professional
also in the motivation came to
Córdoba a group of women and men
anthropologists and team anthropologists
argentinian forensic anthropology
They came walking through Argentina
Exhuming pits looking for cause of death
analyzing those bones trying to
identify it and restore the
families
they came walking not only in
Argentina but by many countries of the
world and came to Córdoba to exhume
a massive grave in the municipal cemetery
de san vicente a common friend we
put together did not meet at home
We wanted us to do a lot of Argentinian
when I counted in a house we ate
a roasted azos had already came too and
then having a few glasses of wine
I was shocked by the stories
what these anthropologists told me
because the Argentine team of
forensic anthropology is an NGO that
works on cases of violation of
universal human rights trying to
identify
they told me stories of all the
countries but there in that meeting in that
roasted with this wine we realized that
they were on a stumbling block there was a point
dead they needed to incorporate a
new technology to this process
complex of identification and
genetic and then we think about joining
efforts and do something like I remember
that at that time we considered
let’s try the San Vicente grave
the rest worse preserved by the rest
more degraded more deteriorated
if we do well with that surely we
will go well with us and it was very
well and the first one came up
identification of a bone remnant of the
dictatorship in Argentina in the grave of san
vicente in córdoba
that fills us with joy and we said
let’s put a laboratory like that was done
we set up a genetics laboratory
where young guys who are
working I know
very much and we started walking
we call relatives we start to cross
letters to rewrite names but
only in Argentina for Argentina
we produced some identifications
others more from the cemetery of san vicente
of the torture and death center of the
pearl the identification of some of
the founding mothers of Plaza de Mayo
that had been thrown into the sea and
burn them had returned
we also went to walk the path that
they were walking they uruguay paraguay
and Bolivia where they also had
dictatorships and they disappeared names and
identities and further north in
Central America El Salvador The War of
the eighties and even further north in the
mexico current where thousands disappear
of migrants
every year there are many countries that
going through mexico want to achieve
get to the dream of the northern country
also in other continents africa
for example the South Africa that imprisoned
to mandela in asia
it seems all wonderful not everything went well
but those many times we stayed
in the middle
many times we have the remains but they have
spent so many years that the relatives
have been and other times we have the
relatives but you can not find
remains and other times still having the
remains are so deteriorated that no
we can decipher the letters for
compare them with the relatives of that
it really generates a lot of frustration
you know, I’m sure that
meet a television series
extremely famous very famous and popular
if you have new york angels miami
in the series the researchers in hours
and days solve the cases
very difficult is fiction and reality
is another
we call you to those effects and you
why generate an image
distorted the complex process of
ID
the most worrying thing is that they do not
only about people popularly
but some authorities of the
governments
they also believe that it is so easy on
they are all models the reality
our
it’s a little different you do not remember the
I’m remembering about 45 years ago
back I had to participate in a
convocation that we had done in
mexico to relatives in the call
the number of families that came to give
your blood samples to make a
blood bank and compare the data with
the number of graves that were going
discovering it was a very solemn atmosphere
and relatives is so serious they came to give
your blood samples in a moment
I finished taking the sample to a mother
he stopped to reach out to
give it to her
she was also very small native
dressed in her costume to extend
the hand and licked it with the two thousand to
three cows said doctorcito please
melo find that request in its mandate
for that order mandate is worth the
regret to insist and insist on those cases
complexes that we can not solve
obsessively insist to try
produce a new identity to be able to
write a name again
a family to end the years of
wait and uncertainty of anguish and
so that little mother can be
find again with your son yet
His son is already dead
thank you very much
ashley
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