SYLVIA COLOMBO
BUENS AIRES, Argentina (Folhapress)-Thousands of Argentines went to the streets on Monday (24) by National Memory Day for Truth and Justice, when they remembered the more than 20,000 missing from the military regime, which began on March 24, 1976. The main manifestation in Buenos Aires took the Praça de May, a history of civil resistance against dictatorship. But acts are not restricted to large cities and spread across the country. In the small Gualeguaychú, on the border with Uruguay and nearly three hours by car from Buenos Aires, Hugo Angosa, 73, participated in the march, as she does every year, with the demand for clarification about what happened to her brother, Daniel, and her sister, “blanquita”, missing during the dictatorship.
“Daniel had no political performance, was in Santa Fe, where he was medical. [grupo guerrilheiro]attended the meetings in the city, ”says Angosa to Folha.
The number of missing in Argentina, already the subject of questions in major urban centers, is even more uncertain in the interior.
“We were six brothers, four men and two women. Those who militated in politics were Daniel and Blanca, who was the youngest. Our Calvary began before the coup on February 18, 1976 [durante o governo civil de Isabel Perón, que, com o esquadrão apelidado de Triple A, já reprimia os chamados “subversivos”]”, Write Angeler.
“Very late at night, my parents and some neighbors were taking a fresh air on the sidewalk and I was dinner, when suddenly a Fiat 128 went against the opposite, and they went down some uniformed army and police. They grabbed them all and pushed them into the house, asked where I slept and started reviewing my room; from Daniel. ”
According to Angosa, one of the agents told Cristina, wife of Daniel, who the day before he had been arrested by police in Santa Fe, where he planned to move with his family-a newly formed medical-to do specialization in gastroenterology. Cristina was with her four -month -old son in his arms, who did not stop crying throughout the fruitless search operation.
From then on, the Angosa-NGOLD, especially Hugo and his mother, began to travel barracks, police stations and courts, using all possible contacts to find out where Daniel was.
“We know that the most likely is that they have been killed, but we will go out every year and get every year, we have no other alternative. I have a nephew, son of Blanquita, who was born in captivity – would be 46 years old today. We will not rest until we find him,” said Angoosa.
He himself was kidnapped on September 30 of that 1976 to “inform about the brothers.” He said he didn’t say anything. He spent a few days suffering torture until he was released. “I had no political acting, worked on a small veterinarian, but they wanted information about my brothers’ friends, wanted to phones, contacts, and I had nothing.” That day, however, he heard from a sergeant the words he has never forgotten and who still thinks they can be a lie: “Your brother, holy faith, you will never see again.”
Angosa told the interrogators that his brother was not of armed struggle and that he had entered the militancy to provide medical help in the poorest neighborhoods. He was taken to a clandestine center in Gualeguaychú, but the interrogations led to nothing. It was released a week later. “I saw horrible things, I heard the shouts of the tortured all night, the bathtubs where they carried electric shocks. I stayed there seven days.”
His sister, whom they called Blanquita, was taken to the clandestine center of El Vesubio in La Matanza, where he gave birth to a boy, according to reports of companions.
Angosa does not encourage themselves to believe that the brothers may be alive. But your nephew, whom they call Peter, yes. “All of our DNA data is in the laboratory of the grandparents of Praça de Maio, and we will continue, year after year, until we know more about it. We also want the traces of our brothers -and deserve a grave. The country also deserves to know what happened to them all.”
