Week 2
Monday, July 15
Today, I spend time at “The
Center for Legal and Social Studies” in Buenos Aires. During this time, I
read many “secret” documents that show the systematic measures that government
agencies/groups adopted to “eliminate” the “subversives” in Argentina before
and during the last dictatorship. I was shocked to read that agents/police had infiltrated
even in schools and universities and that they were authorized to kidnap and
torture whoever they wanted. This gave me a glimpse at what it could mean if
you were a teacher who spoke out against the government.
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| Mothers 1977-78 |
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| Newspaper denouncing the killing of innocents civilians |
Tuesday,
July 16
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| Plaza de Mayo-BA-- Marchando con las madres |
I
went to the Association of the Madres of Plaza
de Mayo to meet with the mothers. This investigation is being partially
funded thanks to a grant from the Brookline Education Foundation. One of the
original objectives was to spend time with some of the madres and to have an opportunity to bring some questions that my
students from Brookline wanted to ask.
Fortunately for me and my students two mothers were eager to talk and gave me an
opportunity to record a 40 minutes interview. Here is only a part of the
interview. Sorry for the background noise (I was filming and asking the
questions by myself)
http://youtu.be/iQQPSE0pT5U
http://youtu.be/iQQPSE0pT5U
Wednesday,
July 17
I
visited two former detention camps around Buenos Aires. Here, as in the first
center I visited last week, many innocent people were tortured and eventually
killed. After my visit to one of the former centers, I interviewed two people
who have dedicated themselves to preserving the memory and stories of the
camps. I uploaded a segment of the interview.
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