https://hijos-capital.org.ar/2025/01/04/el-conti-no-se-cierra-vamos-a-defenderlo/
“The cultural center that the Milei and Villarruel government wants to close is named after Haroldo Conti, who disappeared due to state terrorism in 1976. Seen in the clandestine center of Vesuvius. His body is still missing.
It operates in the Memory and Human Rights Space (formerly ESMA) with a deep commitment from its workers, as well as the thousands of people who visited and toured it over the years.”
“In 2025 we celebrate 30 years of HIJOS, from that moment in 1995, when we formed the group to fight for the Trial and Punishment of the genocidaires. We began to meet and organize in a context of impunity for repressors and civil participants, with our common stories and the demand for 30,000 militancy. This is how escraches emerged as a tool for constructing social condemnation. Over the years we formed a National and an International Network.
Initially, we met daughters and sons of militants who were victims of state terrorism, but later we opened participation to people who joined without having a family history directly linked to the civil-military dictatorship.
We continue fighting for Memory, Truth and Justice, to find all our brothers and sisters who were born in captivity in clandestine centers and still do not know their identity, for the recovery of the thousands of bodies that remain missing, for a people with bread, peace, work, health, education, housing and freedom.
Currently, in Argentina there are HIJOS regional offices in: Capital, Rosario, Santa Fe, Córdoba, Chaco, Jujuy, Salta, Tucumán, Corrientes, Santiago del Estero, Paraná, Concordia, Bahía Blanca, Necochea, La Plata, Ensenada, La Matanza, President Perón, Lanús, Almirante Brown, Lomas de Zamora, Quilmes and Escobar-Zárate-Campana.”
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Escrache’s speech to the genocidal Jorge Luis Magnacco, the ESMA midwife
“Let the whole neighborhood know!: today we are at Marcelo T. de Alvear 1665, because JORGE LUIS MAGNACCO, the ESMA midwife, lives at 10o F. We are here, because the only place for a genocide is prison.
A lot has happened since that first escrache, Magnacco. Of the grandsons and granddaughters that you stole from ESMA, thanks to the struggle of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, eleven already have their identities restored. That is one of the greatest popular victories. But we need to know where the other babies who were born there and passed through your hands are, young people that we are still looking for today. And you are also the one who continues to remain silent about what happened to the women, whose births took place in inhumane conditions, and who are still missing. You were there, not kidnapped like them and the 5,000 victims, but as a participant in crimes against humanity. You saw them born, you knew their faces, you heard their cries, you had them in your hands and you continue to kidnap them every day by not telling us where they are.”
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