"These women were crazy and children tirabombas" By Alejandra Dandan
Her grandmother placed her Elsa appropriators held in 1982, but only managed to recover their identity Paula in 1987. With it was first used DNA tests eventually became an invaluable tool. Paula Logan has
an old memory from the beaches of Mar del Plata, having been there once or twice. In these beaches a scene, the image of the applause of the people. Cree who once asked his parents who meant what did those people. At that time explained that the applause was because a child was lost, and there were signs to look for the family.
"I do not remember exactly - Paula says now, thousands of years later - but I think at that time, myself, then a small perdidita cure, I think it was."
There were two other times when he tried to miss as if he sensed some history and a father who was deputy brigade of San Justo and still under dictatorship, he appeared with the Mercedes Benz car because he was hired by the company . Once it happened in the courtyard, where a small door looked convinced that he could take her somewhere. Again occurred near the Obelisk. Mother who had walked into a hotel, she stayed behind, he imagined what would happen if not followed. It did. Not followed. He walked a few meters in the opposite direction until he suddenly felt his appropriating the gripping arms.
"I think make it interesting that I was not so comfortable there, from the perspective of a girl, "says Paula." I told mom and dad to them but it was as if that were not natural, as if I were in some way alienated living in a situation without living and still is as I could see the roles of each, maybe something for a child is unusual. "
Paula kidnapped at 23 months of age. On 18 May 1978 Uruguay a gang took it with her mother and father Grinspon Monica Claudio Logan. It was a holiday, they got off a bus and boarded another way to the park Rodo. Paula spent the next six years with the appropriators: Raquel Teresa Mendiondo and Ruben Lavallén, the Commissioner of San Justo. His grandmother Elsa Pavón walked all those years to find it. He saw her once when Paul had served six years, but when he wanted to see her the Lavallén had left the house. They recounted the story in the hearings on the plan systematic theft of babies. Elsa spoke three hours. Cried the courtroom, lawyers and three of the four judges of the Federal Court 6 who did not know how to cover the face. The woman spoke of the sinister logic of "here is" and "here is" to reproduce the returns of a carousel. And as I did, and relived each appearance and disappearance, said what he said he was about to find it: "If I say finally that she is, no matter: the next day I put on my shoes and start again."
Rebuilding
Paula Paula is convinced that Lavallén knew his parents because they passed through the clandestine center of the Brigade of San Justo. The Lavallén scored as the biological daughter two years younger, as if born later. Once
says he heard on television a kind of game where you said, support and care. "I remember that Lavallén we played in the street, we walked and when he I grabbed my relief and began to scream for help. It was a game, he says, but today I look at it differently: I think there are games and games and one does not get to play as well, asking for help and assistance in the street because. "
say their appropriators could not rename . That when Paula came home he repeated constantly. "From the name I do not remember much," says Paula, "but it's a game that was repeated. One day she was, Rachel, and a kind neighbor in the apartment and say, 'Let's see, today we play to call you so. " I at that time I laid in bed when I went round and insisted it was as if I was tired and was going to play somewhere else. "
Years later, and at his grandmother, Paula asked if she had her baby clothes. They had spent a few days of recovery, Paula was measured. Before a statue of Mother's rounds on television, and had told his grandmother that these women were crazy and children tirabombas. Now called clothing. Elsa was given. Paula told him that once he had also asked his appropriating. The first time, the woman said she had not because he had donated to poor children. The second time he said the same, but asked if he was selfish. The third time, told him selfish and slapped him. Paula
not remember. "I always remember that he beat her in the bathroom general "He says, although it once did before me. I remember it hit me once, and moreover, I always thought it was the only one: I threw a porcelain plate, would be about eight years and I only remember that I looked and did not hit me. "
Search
Elsa searched and searched. His consuegro once said: "He looked in the mirror, Elsa?". Or, "Did you see what state?". I leave the search suggested that maybe her granddaughter and was with another family, "What you gonna do? Will get back to the parents?. "Elsa responded with what he would always say that he would follow that those were not the parents.
Over time, Granny had pictures of the Lavallén by a neighbor who heard a discussion. Elsa saw Paula in the front door, but when he tried again found a poster for rent with the empty apartment. Two years later, with the democratic opening and the murals of Grandmothers in the streets, someone provided other data. Paula was now within four blocks of Chacarita. Elsa traveled every day from Banfield to buy vegetables in front of the house. The first time he saw her he went into shock because his granddaughter was an overall pre-school when it should have had a primary. Elsa did not know of the delayed birth registration or so after the Psychologists explained as stress of war: from the kidnapping, Paula had begun to have stunted growth.
One day followed a micro, and knew where he was the school. Another day she asked her husband to approach the girl to ask her name and surname to the complaint. When her husband ran into the girl had the impression that she was about to say "grandfather." "My grandmother told me that later, but I have this other scene," says Paula, "I have the record of people watching me, and one day there was someone that catches my attention and then I remember having had the look, was the When leaving the school, I was on my way to the bus. I look, I argue the look but not so challenging but to see what happened. "
Paula then knew that that was his grandfather. That was worried that day because I knew if she had instinctively recognized in some detail and I could say something in home. After the search, was the complaint. There were judges who did everything possible to delay the meeting. No ordered raids, did not allow the tests that despite the age difference between the two Paulas could tell whether it was no. When the data was finally, some people would not deliver the child until it resolved the merits of the case. Paula finally met his grandmother in December 1987 was the first grandchild restored by DNA.
Judge Andrew D'Alessio of the Court of Appeals presented them: "The place was like a castle with huge chairs and had a coffee table. I remember that I presented to my grandmother and I was spinning around the table did not want contact with her, she sits down and shows me some pictures from when I was young, one upa of my parents and one where I was to drink. What happened then is that in one of those photos I recognize I realize that I was, because it was equal to the first picture I had taken in the other house, but I look and then said nothing, and said nothing for a long time, perhaps years later I told him. "
Paula was eight." That was because of skepticism that I had, I think I drove a little so distrusted. Suddenly I'm not sure how but I'm crying and holding me sleep, and it was not natural. I wanted to sleep, as if he needed rest, but I did not dare because I was not sure where. There was a social worker. I remember she told me to sleep quietly, and she gave me a little ring that was, 'You will sleep with the ring and when you wake up give it to me. " I told him no, and asked the other ring was on hand because I figured that if I had offered was because I had more courage. "
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gone missing from a State
By Gustavo Veiga
The Commission for the Reconstruction of Our Identity and identified 270 workers who, when they were abducted or killed, worked in ENTel Segba, Sanitation and other companies. Its members are asked to amend the records are adulterated. First
disappeared after state workers and businesses. The civilian-military dictatorship and Menem divided the unfortunate task between 1976 and 1990. Members of the Working Committee for the Reconstruction of Our Identity summarized in a handful of anecdotes how painful was the sequence. Julian Scabbiolo details so far identified 270 peer through an investigation initiated in early 2007. With the help of Obdulia García Piñeiro remember the names of some companies where they were employed and no longer exist: ENTel Segba, Gas del Estado, Sanitary Works ELMA, Encotel ... Diego Rodriguez shows the data file with his father where he stands one loss, that misrepresents its status as missing. Silvina Giaganti note that in kindergarten for your child, a mother identified her uncle by the journal in which all work together, build memories. Juan Jose Leiva recalls its way through the subway line A until the day he was forced to resign and the military abducted him.
The five shared a round of dunks in the National Memory Archive, where they decided to put the story in place. "It seems that the dictatorship was spent in peace and order within the public administration. There was sabotage, strikes and even grief work, "describes the group expects to sign a presidential decree to repair the tampering of records that speak of casualties, suspensions and dismissals. Instead, they should bear an inscription detained-disappeared.
" We started to recover subsets of workers and was a great event because it contained injustices. The terrorist state was the murderer and also the employer. We have colleagues I stopped road to the company, others who disappeared in the offices and the remaining were discharged and abducted six months later. We decided not to join together and papers because we are committed to have a tool to repair this situation, " Scabbiolo says, Youth Works. With the aplomb of a veteran says: "We have identified 270 partners, although we know more and that dissemination will be crucial for the family to approach, aware of the existence of the Commission and to give his testimony." Invited to perform at the Ministry of Economy, Hipolito Yrigoyen 250, Office 1141, or the former ESMA, Avenida del Libertador 8151, Office 69.
Beside him, Lewis said it is a "survivor" who worked at Subway in Buenos Aires, where he was forced away in 1978 under threat of death. "I lost comrades were falling one after another, the 'Skinny' Nuñel Augustine, the 'Tano' Roberto Rizzi, Correa, Chalampé, worth a lot of mates who were taken away because they were the most humane, the most militant. "Today we still struggle unsuccessfully to get his reinstatement Metrovías. Militant JP, recalls minute detail the financial controller, Lieutenant Colonel Jose Luis Pinto: "A dark-haired man, tall, wearing army evening dress with long boots, dark glasses, a brown cap firmly on the eyes and whip with the sticking in boots. I will not forget again walked among us wondering what you did and appealed to the insult to intimidate. "
García Piñeiro works in the former ESMA this reclaimed space to keep alive the memory. "A bundle says a lot of people tell us that they were excellent workers, who performed evaluations. They are the stories of their children, how they grow, certificates of schooling, are stories that fill you with love. The first family with which I found it was Diego and I was very excited. " Rodriguez, a lawyer and human rights adviser to the Legislature of Buenos Aires, corroborates: "I approached the Commission through Obdulia." Angel Alberto, his father was an employee of Sanitation. Disappeared on August 4, 1976. He was abducted in Lower Belgrano, Hussars and Monroe, near the golf River and clandestine detention center most emblematic of dictatorship, where now the five reconstruct the identity of the missing state workers.
have a tool handy to do so. On 27 March 2007 signed a memorandum of agreement of collaboration between the Department of Public Works, Ministry of Planning and National Memory Archive. An ambitious work keeps them busy, developing the work of survey and documentation of the missing personnel who also played in the defunct Ministry of Works and Utilities, created in 1898 and victims of the dismantling of the State in the 90s, nearly a century later. "A decree '91 dissolves it. We had the building on July 9 and Belgrano raised the Menem pull it down. All staff went to the Ministry of Economics and many teammates were for voluntary retirement ", they say.
Besides retrieving bundles, cross your data with Conadep and deliver to the archives, the Commission organizes training courses on human rights for public administration . They are the former ESMA visits are made every month and those which involved more than 800 workers since they began in mid-2008. The initiative was handled by a former detainee who went missing at that center and is used underground Development of the Secretariat Urban and Housing.
Giaganti, who along with Lewis Scabbiolo and serves on the Public Works Department, redefines bastardized you have public employment: "We feel that the employee of the state must play a social role, for the people, equivalent to build housing or water comes to a neighborhood, or installing sewers. We met every day tasks that conviction. Working in the State was not well seen and today we are proud. " Rodriguez rescues "the historical value of the work accomplished by the Commission. I, as a missing child who was part of a public company, I took the job they do as a flag of its own. And I'm sure will help current employees aware of peers who walked the same halls, who works as them and that a criminal they removed its identity. "
The rebuilding of those lives and how the military dictatorship erupted in the state agencies to snatch, advances in different stories throughout the interview. "To my colleagues were kidnapped with the trucks of the units of public and now the buses that bring us to the former ESMA is to reconstruct the memory, compared Scabbiolo." on the docket that we recovered were letters from colleagues asking for someone who was not attending to work. Signed notes knowing that they risked their lives to ask for a missing person. It says there were accusations of each other, but we see that the files say otherwise, "says Giaganti." This is not working on the past, is working on the future, "concludes Garcia Piñeiro and all settle in the belief who are completing a story that has many windows open.
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