Street Images: Busted or Bitchin #8

Tuesday, March 9, 2010 by A.M. Hasler
These are all over, these plaques on the sidewalk.

"Aquí Trabajó [Here Worked]
Nelida Beatriz Ardito
Militante Popular [Militant for the People]
Detenida, Desaparecida [Detained, Disappeared]
12-10-1976 [12 October, 1976]
Por el Terrorismo de Estado [By State Terrorism]
Barrios X Memoria Y Justica [Neighborhoods X Memory and Justice]"

"Aquí Estudió [Here Studied]
Inés Cobo
Militante Popular [Militant for the People]
Detenida, Desaparecida [Detained, Disappeared]
1-9-1976 [1 September 1976]
Por el Terrorismo de Estado [By State Terrorism]
Barrios X Memoria y Justicia [Neighborhoods X Memory and Justice]"


These always strike me, and despite the dictatorship coming to power thirty years ago, I see the wound it left on this society even now.  I cannot think of a better way to memorialize these people who, kidnapped by the government and probably in an unmarked grave somewhere, have their gravestone here.  A quick google search of barrios/comisión de memoria y justicia turns up one of these groups in most of Buenos Aires's neighborhoods.
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