On September 11, 1977, Cherif Omar AINIE ROJAS, a Chemistry student at the university in that city, who had been living in Argentina since his childhood, was detained in the Quilmes neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.

The following day, members of the Joint Armed Forces raided his home, taking the victim's identity card. The Commission concluded that Cherif Ainie was detained and forcibly disappeared in Argentina, in violation of his human rights, in the context of the aforementioned situation. However, it is not possible to affirm the responsibility of Chilean State agents in these events.

Source: Rettig Report

There are 30,000 forcibly disappeared persons during the Dictatorship. There are 30,000 people whose identities were taken from them. Football and politics are the same thing, even if, at times, attempts are made to separate them to maintain the purity of a game that, from its inception, was always much more than just a game.

Football clubs boast of their work related to Human Rights. Each one cries out on its own, when the demand is collective, as Argentine history has taken it upon itself to demonstrate every March 24th with the cry of a trident that is a global example: memory, truth, and justice.

The ball was also robbed, because there is at least one voice missing from the stands of every stadium. Rodolfo Walsh was a member of Estudiantes de La Plata; he frequented the club to play chess. In February 2019, the file that the Río Negro native signed to join the club was found.

For every move of a rook, pawn, bishop, king, queen, or knight, Rodolfo wrote a character; he tried to change the world with his plays. The most recognized is, perhaps, Operación masacre and its famous opening whistle: “There is a man who was executed who is still alive” .

Skilled with the pen, he also put the Dictatorship in check with his Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta, where he ended up risking his life, but, as he told them then: “These are the reflections that, on the first anniversary of your infamous government, I have wanted to send to the members of that Junta, without hope of being heard, with the certainty of being persecuted, but faithful to the commitment I made a long time ago to bear witness in difficult times” .

On March 25, 1977, he was forcibly disappeared. Six days earlier, Gustavo Ramón "Pupa" Bruzzone suffered the same fate in Rosario. He was also a chess player, but a fan of the Tatengue. He was born in Santa Fe and taught himself to read.

He represented the Santa Fe Federation at the chessboard. He was also a goalkeeper. He played for Gimnasia y Esgrima de Ciudadela and, in 1965, his coach intended to take him to Unión, but they did not want to release him; he got angry and quit forever.

On March 19, 1977, he left his house to pick up his car from the repair shop, a Citroën 3CV. He never returned. They took it upon themselves to erase the traces of his disappearance, but they could not erase the memory of his mother and his brother, with whom he shared the passion of being a Unión fan. “Because what is important is not to live, but to live while writing,” said Roberto Jorge Santoro in his book Literatura de la pelota, which was published in 1971, the first work that mixed literature and football.

The poet, who was born on April 17, 1939, in Chacarita, wrote: I love you write he dreams we live you all sing they kill They kidnapped him on June 1, 1977, at the National School of Technical Education No. 25 “Teniente Primero de Artillería Fray Luis Beltrán,” his place of work.

Santoro was a poet, a militant, a fan of thinking and changing the world. He was also attracted to the ball and, among those things that define him, is Racing, the club of his life. Music is poetry, as the Gonçalves brothers well know.

Gastón is the bassist for the band Los Pericos. Manuel was Claudio Novoa for 19 years; they adopted him as a baby, they took him to Quilmes after finding him in a closet wrapped in blankets in San Nicolás, the place where his mother had hidden him minutes before being murdered.

He was always a fan of the band of his brother, without knowing it. How many times must he have seen him play? Why did he like that Reggae so much? They do not share a mother, but they share a father, who was a militant of the Juventud Unida Peronista (JUP) and was murdered by the military on March 24, 1976.

From there stems his fanaticism for a football club in La Boca. When they met at the Abuelas headquarters, they found out: “-What team are you from? -From Boca. -Then you are my brother!” They shout Boca's goals together.

They had each other during the mythical Copa Libertadores final in which the rivals of life faced each other. Luciano Arruga could not witness the event because, on January 31, 2009, the Police killed him.

Five years later, they found his body buried as an unidentified person (NN) in the Chacarita Cemetery. He was 16 years old when they snatched away his dream of visiting El Monumental on a match day forever.

He was a River fan; he kept soil and grass from the pitch he longed for so much in a small jar. His mother, Mónica, said that El Millonario was his life. When she asked him what that container with brown and green was, he told her it was a science project for school; he didn't want her to scold him.

He had obtained it on a day when River was not playing and not training either. With his agile waist, he managed to enter the field and get what he wanted. But he could not see the 11 with the sash dribbling in that place, because he was murdered in democracy.

Rodolfo "El Negro" Ortiz also longed for the stadium of the team of his loves. He was born on September 6, 1949, in Avellaneda and with a Granate heart. At age 6, he lost his father, and his mother sent him and his brother to a boarding school in General Rodríguez.

He managed his time to attend classes and see his mother; he had to repress his desires to go see Lanús, he missed Los Albañiles. Militancy caught him in college; he studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires.

There he met Viviana, his partner in life and struggle. They were militants in the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT). Because of his schedule, it was often difficult for him to cross paths with his team, but, if he couldn't, he had a radio at hand to listen to what was happening or, when he went to the stadium to hand out flyers with other comrades, he would watch the matches through the wire fence.

They kidnapped him on March 29, 1976. In 1998, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) informed the Negro's family that he had been detained for 44 days at the Puente clandestine detention center.

On May 12, 1976, he was murdered. Argentine clubs were shaken indiscriminately, because that is how the Dictatorship acted, and that is why the sidewalk across the street also has absences. A boy who was born on March 20, 1949, dreamed of wearing the green and white jersey, playing a classic against Lanús, and winning.

He went to play and train in the youth divisions of the Taladro. He was a fan and member of the club. His father was vice president in 1951. He was also the team doctor for the professional squad. Banfield was the center of Raúl "Patón" Ceci's life, until militancy occupied that place.

The Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP) cut short what would have been his professional career as a football player, and they were already counting on him. He had the qualities to be a great athlete, but his ideals were stronger than stepping on the grass of the Florencio Sola.

The corner of Beltrán and Hipólito Yrigoyen was the last place he was seen. On May 16, 1977, they took him. Since 2011, that intersection in Remedios de Escalada has borne the name of Raúl, the kid who was educated at the Unidad Académica Escuela Normal Superior “Antonio Mentruyt” and who was part of the lost division, a group of teachers, students, and alumni of that institution who were forcibly disappeared during the last Dictatorship. "Patón" Ceci, however, was not the only one who had good feet for handling the ball.

Nor was he the only one who hung up his boots for his social commitment. Norberto Julio Morresi emulated the former Banfield youth player. He played for Bristol, a team from Parque Patricios, and was a Huracán fan.

At the same time, he was part of the Unión de Estudiantes Secundarios (UES). "El Rata," at 17 years old, was very committed to his help in the shantytowns and in Villa 21, where he taught his peers to read and write.

He was murdered on April 23, 1976, the day of his illegal detention. They intercepted him when he was going to a parish in the villa, together with Luis María Alberto, who also suffered the same fate. Both were carrying copies of Evita Montonera to distribute.

In July 1989, forensic anthropologists found him and his companion buried as unidentified persons (NN) in the General Villegas cemetery. After exhuming him, he was handed over to his parents. It was proven that he was murdered with six shots at close range.

But “He who leaves does not die, only he who is forgotten dies,” rapped the Venezuelan Canserbero, and Morresi is remembered, as his former school, the No. 1 Bernardino Rivadavia in the Federal Capital, does, keeping him present every day whenever students enter the Norberto Julio Morresi classroom.

The space for learning and training was christened with his name on May 21, 2013, when he would have turned 54. The genocidaires did it once more. On September 11, 1977, on the fourth anniversary of the death of Salvador Allende, Cherif Omar "El Chato" Rojas was heading to the Quilmes stadium to see the last champion: his beloved Vélez Sarsfield.

On the way, the Buenos Aires provincial police kidnapped him and forcibly disappeared him. He was Chilean, but lived in Argentina since he was little. During his secondary studies at the Technical Education School No. 35, he founded and joined the Unión de Estudiantes Secundarios (UES) and later was part of the Juventud Universitaria Peronista, when he was studying Chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).

Today, his mother, Cristina Rojas, is part of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo and is one more of the many who continue the incessant struggle. Raimundo Aníbal Villaflor was barely 5 years old and Independiente was already a two-time champion of Argentine football.

Between both tournaments, that of 1938 and that of 1939, Arsenio Erico scored 83 goals. In the streets of Valentín Alsina, with his friends and a ball, Raimundo played at being that number 9 for Independiente.

His passion for the Rojo won out over that of his father, Aníbal Clemente Villaflor, who was a Racing fan. But in politics, the whole family wore the same jersey: Juan Domingo Perón FC. By the beginning of the fifties, Raimundo was a militant in the Peronist Youth.

Not even the Dictatorship led by Eduardo Lonardi and Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, which overthrew Perón on September 16, 1955, silenced that commitment and solidarity. He led countless strikes against the de facto governments of those times.

Raimundo Villaflor's militancy was constant. On March 24, 1976, fear, terror, and persecution took hold of the country. Three years passed and the horror continued to impose itself in Argentina. On August 4, 1979, Raimundo was kidnapped and taken to the Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada (ESMA).

Five days later, and after countless tortures, he was murdered. Luis Alberto Ciancio was a fan of the Lobo like all his family and was able to fulfill one of his great dreams: to play for the club of his loves.

But many others, such as graduating as an engineer and seeing his son Federico grow up, were snatched away from him by the genocidaires on December 7, 1976, at his work, the entrance to the Provincial Road Administration offices.

That same day, they detained Patricia Dillon, his partner, at the Banco Provincia branch in Berisso, where she worked. 33 years later, Luis's remains were returned to his family, along with his identity.

He had been detained at the Pozo de Banfield and was executed by firing squad. He received three shots. Carlos Vivas was a San Lorenzo fanatic. At 12 years old, he raved about the Matadores, a nickname earned by a San Lorenzo team.

The goal shouts of that unforgettable year '68, the dribbles of Pedro González, the penalties executed by the infallible Tucumano Albrecht, the saves by Buttice, the runs by the Uruguayan Villar, the footwork of Rendo.

As the years passed, politics was added to the passion for the Boedo team. By the beginning of the 70s, he began to be a militant. First, he did it in the Juventud Peronista (JP) and, later, in the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT).

On May 12, 1976, a group of soldiers raided his house but Carlos was not there. From that day on, he had to remain in hiding. However, nine months later, precisely on February 18, 1977, the bloodiest of the dictatorships forcibly disappeared him when he was 20 years old.

Américo Jorge Marchetti teacher of this school forcibly disappeared by state terrorism 08/13/76 This is the tribute that appears on a plaque at School No. 17 “Abel Ayerza” in Devoto. There, the Teacher poured out passion for teaching and commitment to human rights.

Every mention of Marchetti is a compliment: “He was a hardworking teacher -his pleasure in what he did was noticeable-, affectionate and, above all, unusually funny.” He liked jokes, reading, and playing football, to the point that he was the organizer of the school championships.

His father, before registering him at the civil registry, made him a member of Argentinos Juniors. One of his many former students remembers the fateful day of his kidnapping: “At the corner, some guys with weapons got out of a Falcon shouting his last name, pushing him inside, tearing apart the afternoon.

Today it seems implausible that classes would continue the following Monday, that a few days later a teacher whose face or name I don't even remember would take charge of the classroom, and that painful vaguenesses would be mumbled about his disappearance.” On December 5, 1955, Carlos Raúl Tenuta was born, son of Raúl Tenuta, former goalkeeper for Colón.

His father, almost 6 years earlier, would score the first goal from goal-to-goal in the history of Argentine football, in a match for the 34th round of the Primera B against Almagro. The goalkeeper hit the ball with such force that it bounced in the rival's large area and, after confusion by the goalkeeper, Polidoro Sánchez, it managed to caress the net for the shout of a goal.

Both Carlos's name and his father's will always remain in memory. Tenuta was kidnapped and forcibly disappeared on January 10, 1978, at the exit of the Martín Fierro meatpacking plant, in Zárate, Buenos Aires province.

After finishing high school at the La Salle school, he began to be a militant and worked in the 12 de Octubre neighborhood; there he worked as a teacher for the Adult Education Program (DINEA) and formed a football club that bore the name of the neighborhood priest, Oscar Aguirre.

He and his family always worried about improving the life of others: his old man, as a goalkeeper for the sabaleros; he, as a union militant; and his mother, for memory, truth, and justice. Irma Cena de Tenuta, founder of Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Santa Fe.

This is how she described her son: “Carlitos was in a hurry to be born, since he didn't give me time to get to the hospital and he was born at home; he was in a hurry to live, getting married at 20 and having a son at 21; also to die…” Rugby was another of the sports that suffered the horror of the Military Dictatorship.

Guillermo White was born on December 9, 1952, in Rosario, Santa Fe. From a young age, he began to play the oval-ball sport at the Club Marista in that city. But he had two other unyielding passions: Newell's Old Boys and militancy.

White was president of the student council of the Liceo Avellaneda secondary school at 21 years old, at the same time that he was a militant in the Vanguardia Comunista organization, together with his wife, Stella Buna.

His zeal to campaign for a fairer world was the justification found by the repressive apparatus that kidnapped him on February 10, 1977, in a bar on the outskirts of Santa Fe when he was 25 years old. He was sent to the La Calamita Clandestine Detention Center, in Granadero Baigorria, Santa Fe, where days later his wife, Stella, was also taken after being kidnapped and later released.

White's relatives did the impossible to find him, filing habeas corpus petitions in court without success, through his mother, María Rosa Saint Girons, one of the founders of Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Guillermo White's remains were found in May 2018 in the La Calamita cemetery in Rosario, after a joint investigation between the Fiscal Unit, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, and the Secretariat for Human Rights.

His memory is latent in each of those who knew him, and this was reflected by his daughter, María Rosa White, on social media when her father's remains were found: “I think of my father, who since that February of '77 only accumulated sadness, of my mother who tore down every wall that stood in her way, of all those who loved him, of this family that formed a collective to suffer, and to dream together of the impossible, which only takes a little longer” On December 19, 1976, Talleres de Córdoba faced River Plate at the Bombonera, located in La Boca, Buenos Aires.

The T would lose that match 1 to 0 in the semifinal of the Argentine tournament, but the defeat meant much more than a football match. That day, Héctor "El conejo" Ernesto Hunziker was kidnapped during the course of the match; he had gone to see the club of his loves, Talleres, and it could have been his birthday celebration to advance to the final with his club, since he was born on December 18, 1952.

One day before his disappearance at the hands of the military dictatorship. He was 24 years old. He studied architecture and was a militant in the Peronist Youth. His wife, Alicia María Hobbs (09/18/1977), and his siblings, Claudia Elisabeth Hunziker (07/29/1976) and Diego Raúl Hunziker, were also victims of the repressive apparatus.

When they kidnapped Héctor, his sister Irene wrote: “When I miss you a lot, ‘Chancho’, I abstract myself by looking at a little square of caramel-colored hair from our dogs and I remember the whole nights playing Estanciero, the pink Lacoste shirts, the peach-skin bell-bottom pants, your love for Alicia, and in the distance your voice appears calling me to lunch one more time potato omelet, to watch the Three Stooges show, and to share a liter of Coca-Cola in five glasses lined up to check that everyone had the same amount.” Carlos Alberto Belmont was an authentic Canalla.

Together with his brother José, he followed his beloved Rosario Central everywhere. He was born on February 12, 1953, and in 1971 he entered the National University of Rosario to study Psychology. A militant, Montonero, and member of the Juventud Universitaria Peronista (JUP).

Carlos believed in his career as a positive tool to help people improve their lives. From March 24, 1976, he began to be persecuted. His relatives suggested he go into exile in Uruguay, in Central America, but it was no use.

Until the last moment, he fought for his ideals and faced the injustices of the bloodiest Dictatorship in Argentine history. On September 21 of that year, after escaping from Rosario, the young man was militating in Santa Fe.

The Artillery Command 121 was carrying out a control in the streets when they found, kidnapped, and murdered him. Years later, his remains were returned to his family and cremated, but they could not fulfill Carlos's wish that they be scattered all over the Rosario Central pitch.

Football has memory. That is why movements like the Coordinadora de Derechos Humanos del Fútbol Argentino arise, whose launch was on March 24, 2018, to play with the jersey of memory, truth, and justice.

That is why the Club Ferrocarril Oeste decided to place, on November 8, 2019, 16 tiles with the names of its disappeared fans and restored their status as members. That is why Defensores de Belgrano has a grandstand that bears the name of Marquitos Zucker, a fan of the club and disappeared.

That is why the Club Talleres de Remedios de Escalada declared, on May 25, 2019, 23 forcibly disappeared persons from the neighborhood as honorary members and handed the membership cards to their relatives.

Because football is a collective dream, a team that shouts, touches, tackles, blocks, and scores goals to say Never Again and that the 30,000 are present in memory, now and forever. Research: 3rd B Afternoon shift 2019.

Esteban Micozzi, Iván Lorenz, Juan Ignacio Ballarino, Joaquín Méndez, Eugenio Pello, and Federico Flossdorf. Consulted material We spoke with Marcelo Guasardi, one of the members of the Coordinadora de los Derechos Humanos del Fútbol Argentino.

He referred us to the official Facebook page of the movement: https://www.facebook.com/Coordinadora-DDHH-del-F%C3%BAtbol-Argentino-1983857631941948/ From there, several of the stories that are captured in the text were obtained. Federico Amigo, November 9, 2019. Tribute to disappeared members of Ferro: “Here they were happy.”

Tiempo Argentino. Retrieved from

https://www.tiempoar.com.ar/nota/homenajea-a-socios-y-socias-detenidos-desaparecidos-de-ferro-aca-fueron-felices In addition, El Negro Máximo shared with us by email a press release inviting us to cover the event. May 26, 2019. The Club Talleres de Escalada declared 23 forcibly disappeared persons honorary members.

El Diario Sur. Extracted from

https://www.eldiariosur.com/lanus/2019/5/26/el-club-talleres-de-escalada-declaro-socios-honorarios-23-detenidos-desaparecidos-23047.html Gustavo Veiga. Defenders of memory.

Página 12. Extracted from

https://www.pagina12.com.ar/2001/01-06/01-06-18/bue07.htm Gustavo Veiga. Defenders of memory.

Página 12. Extracted from

https://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/deportes/8-182568-2011-12-03.html March 24, 2019. Teacher Américo Marchetti, you disappeared one day between the Abel Ayerza and the Álvarez Thomas.

Espacioteca. Extracted from

https://espacioteca.com/2019/03/24/maestro-americo-marchetti-desapareciste-un-dia-entre-el-abel-ayerza-y-el-alvarez-thomas/ March 2014. Tribute to teacher Américo Marchetti at the school

Source: elequipo-deportea.com, December 7, 2019

Date: 12-07-2019

“Chato”. “Chileno”. “Tito”. He was Chilean, but had lived in Argentina since he was a small child. During his secondary studies at the Eduardo Latzina Technical Education School No. 35, he founded and was a member of the Union of Secondary Students (UES) at that educational institution.

Later, he studied Chemistry at the University of Buenos Aires (UBA) and was a member of the Peronist University Youth (JUP). He was a fan of Vélez Sarsfield, and while on his way to the Quilmes stadium to watch his soccer team, he was forcibly disappeared.

This occurred on September 11, 1977 (paradoxically and sadly, on a new anniversary of the coup against the democratic government of Salvador Allende). The following day, members of the Armed Forces raided his home, taking his identity card, among other things. His mother, Cristina Rojas, joined the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

Source: robertobaschetti.com, undated

In the context of March 24, a day of tribute to the victims of State Terrorism will be held at the club in Liniers. The group Fortinerxs Memoriosxs, with the support of the Commission for Memory, Truth, and Justice of Liniers, Mataderos, and Villa Luro, will hold an event next Saturday in memory of four fans who were forcibly disappeared during the last civic-military dictatorship.

It will take place starting at 4:00 PM on the sidewalk of the Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield headquarters, located at 9200 Avenida Juan B. Justo. There, tiles will be placed in memory of Félix Jorge Pérez, Osvaldo Sposaro, Delfor Santos Soto, and Omar Ainie Rojas.

There will be a screen-printing stand and the participation of Fortineros de Corazón, a murga belonging to the institution's culture department, who will close the event. The Teatro X la Identidad group will also be present with their art, presenting three monologues: “Cuando ves pasar el tren” (“When you see the train pass”), “Flavia”, and “El Tanito”.

Félix Jorge Pérez was a fan of CAVS, a union militant on the internal commission of the Banco Provincia, where he worked, a student of Anthropological Sciences, and a History professor at the University of Morón.

He was kidnapped on April 29, 1977, at age 29, on the fourth floor of the Bank, in front of colleagues and supervisors. Osvaldo Sposaro was also a Vélez fan. He worked in the supply department of the Banco Provincia de Buenos Aires and was a militant in the Peronismo de Base (PB), the 17th of October Revolutionary Movement (MR-17), and the 17th of October Revolutionary Front (FR-17).

On September 12, 1977, at age 27, he was murdered by the military dictatorship while attempting to resist a raid. Delfor Santos Soto was a club member and even wore the Vélez jersey in the youth divisions.

He was a politician, writer, social activist, and member of the Peronist Youth. He was 41 years old when, on August 21, 1976, he was taken into custody in front of his wife and children. He remains forcibly disappeared.

Omar Cherif Ainie Rojas was a Chilean who had lived in Argentina since he was a boy. During his secondary studies at the Eduardo Latzina Technical Education School No. 35, he founded and was a member of the local delegation of the Union of Secondary Students (UES).

He was studying Chemistry at the UBA, was a member of the Peronist University Youth (JUP), and was a fan of Vélez. He was forcibly disappeared on September 11, 1977, while on his way to watch the "V Azulada" (the Blue V) at the Quilmes stadium.

The tiles will be added to those already placed in March of last year, in memory of Susana Rosa Smiles, Juan Carlos Rugilo, Clara Kierszenowicz, and Armando Prieto. During the day, non-perishable food will also be collected for the Vélez Social area, which will then be distributed to local soup kitchens.

The Fortinerxs Memoriosxs collective was born three years ago and is made up of supporters of the Liniers institution who felt the need for a space for Human Rights there. Thus, they began to connect with relatives and friends of the victims of State Terrorism and to compile information to piece together the life stories of Vélez members and fans who were detained and forcibly disappeared and are missing from the club.

Source: avispados.com.ar, 03/23/2023

Date: 03-23-2023

Memory, Truth, and Justice at UTN FRBA

44 years after the last civic-military dictatorship, we remember and pay tribute to the forcibly disappeared members of our technological community at the UTN Buenos Aires Regional Faculty. We vindicate their struggle; they dared to dream of a better country.

As a group, we reaffirm our commitment to keeping memory alive and reconstructing the history of our Faculty. The UTN FRBA Memory Commission has been able to identify 20 proven cases of murders or forced disappearances, including 13 students, 6 professors, and 1 non-teaching staff member.

Members of our technological community murdered and forcibly disappeared by State terrorism: Laura Cristina MUJICA Eduardo Raul PIROYANSKY Oscar MIRANDA Luis Angel MENDIBURU Jorge Alberto TORNAY NIGRO Ricardo Fidel YANGUAS Marcos Antonio BEOVIC Eduardo Pablo MICHAUD Guillermo Federico MONTES Maria Cristina ONIS Miguel SCHWARTZ Hector SILVERO Jose Manuel VARELA Jose Martin MENDOZA Santiago VILLANUEVA Jorge Néstor LIVIO Jorge FERRACANI Gerardo STREJILEVICH

CHERIF OMAR AINIE ROJAS

Jorge Luis PERON

Source: 19deagostoutn.com.ar, 03/24/2020

Date: 03-24-2020

Tribute to victims of State Terrorism

Mario Santucho, a recovered grandson and member of the original group of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo; Ernesto Villanueva, rector of the Arturo Jauretche National University (UNAJ), among others, participated in the meeting held in the Aula Magna of the university, which served to present the progress made by the Memory Commission. "For this people and this university, it is extremely important to sustain the memory of those who passed through these classrooms, were colleagues of other colleagues, and today are no longer here," said the dean of the National Technological University - Buenos Aires Regional Faculty, Guillermo Oliveto, during a tribute act to the victims of State terrorism who were part of the Faculty. Mario Santucho, a recovered grandson and member of the original group of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo; Ernesto Villanueva, rector of the Arturo Jauretche National University (UNAJ); Matías Ros, non-teaching staff of the Faculty and president of the UTNBA Memory Commission; and Natalia Parrondo, general coordinator of the University Social Responsibility Area, also participated in the meeting, which focused on presenting the progress made by the Memory Commission and the material recorded by students of the Digital Inclusion Workshops taught by the Faculty, through the University Social Commitment Area (CSU), in conjunction with the Adolescence Program of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires. The Commission, which initially had a transitory character, was granted "permanent" status by the UTN Buenos Aires Directive Council on March 13 of this year. It managed to identify six new victims: Santiago Villanueva, forcibly disappeared on July 26, 1978; Jorge Néstor Livio, murdered on July 22, 1977; Jorge Ferracani, forcibly disappeared on October 30, 1976; Gerardo Strejilevich, forcibly disappeared on June 15, 1977; and Cherif Omar Ainie Rojas, forcibly disappeared on September 11, 1977. "The relatives of the forcibly disappeared are the center and heart of all this research. They made a great contribution by sharing memories and stories of those who are no longer physically present today, but who live on in the guidance and hearts of their loved ones and colleagues," said Ros when referring to the process of reconstructing memory. "We were able to fulfill this mission in a dignified manner despite the scarcity of our own data and the enormity of data contained in the Unified Registry of Victims of State Terrorism (RUVTE), which presented serious difficulties for filtering information, as it did not state which faculty each victim belonged to," stressed Ros, who detailed that a total of twenty victims had been identified so far: twelve students, seven professors, and one non-teaching staff member with coordination functions. For Dean Oliveto, one of the reasons that motivated the tribute was the "sustenance of memory." "So many years after the end of the dictatorship, it becomes important to sustain memory because there are many young people who obviously did not live through the horror because they were born twenty years later, and that means they have not had access to it except through some family experience or having read about it." "In that sense, the Memory Commission was created in the Faculty to expose some of the atrocities that took place throughout the National Technological University," Oliveto pointed out. In the same vein, Parrondo, the general coordinator of the University Social Responsibility Area, spoke, highlighting the importance of "educating in human rights." "As human beings, we have human rights that are inalienable and are not exercised by everyone. That marks a path, a goal that is social justice and equality, a goal that we will reach through more democracy, defending our rights, and as our mothers and grandmothers taught us, by saying 'never again'." With a speech marked by emotion, Santucho, a member of the original group of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, highlighted that "all the tributes and acts for the forcibly disappeared are about building for the future and not about digging into the past." "We have a lot left to build. Civil society and all of us must not lower our arms, but redouble our efforts because the strength of the mothers and grandmothers will not be eternal, and it is up to us to continue it for as long as necessary," said Santucho. Ernesto Villanueva, rector of the UNAJ and brother of Santiago Villanueva, stressed that "this tribute we are paying to professors, non-teaching staff, and students of the UTNBA is actually a tribute to our history and to ourselves." "These 20 colleagues, almost all of them militants, were all so committed that they wanted a better and fairer country," noted Villanueva, who concluded: "It is true that in these years we have achieved democracy, a system in which we can resolve our conflicts peacefully. However, it is not given once and for all, and in that sense, we must continue fighting for a more equitable country."

Source: pagina12.com, December 23, 2019

Date: 12-23-2019

The UTNBA Memory Commission identified six new victims of State terrorism

On December 16, a tribute act will be held in the Aula Magna for the victims of State terrorism who were part of the Faculty. The UTN Buenos Aires Memory Commission identified, in the last eight months, 6 other people forcibly disappeared during the last Military Dictatorship from the Faculty, who are in addition to the 14 identified in 2018.

On December 16, an act will be held in tribute to the victims, open to the general public. During the event, the progress made by the Commission and the material recorded by students of the Digital Inclusion Workshops taught by the Faculty will be presented, through the University Social Commitment Area (CSU), in conjunction with the Adolescence Program of the Government of the City of Buenos Aires.

On March 13 of this year, the UTN Buenos Aires Directive Council granted "permanent" status to the Commission, with the objective of continuing the investigation into possible new cases. In this second stage, the Commission changed its research methodology because the files provided by the Unified Registry of Victims of State Terrorism (RUVTE) had already been cross-referenced with the archives available at the Faculty, and 14 victims linked to UTN Buenos Aires had been identified.

Interviews were conducted with relatives and friends of the identified victims with the intention of expanding the search network, of which a photographic and audiovisual record was made. "For that, we had the invaluable collaboration of the students, professors, operators, and coordinators of the Inclusion Program," maintained Matías Ros, non-teaching staff of the Faculty and president of the UTNBA Memory Commission.

At the close of this edition of UTNBA en Movimiento, six interviews had been conducted, five of which were individual and one group, with Norberto Jakubowicz, representing Miguel Schwartz; Sergio Rabec, former student, representing José Manuel Varela; Juan Manuel Miranda, graduate of the Electrical Engineering program of the Faculty, survivor of the Clandestine Detention, Torture, and Extermination Center (CCD) ESMA (Navy Mechanics School), and brother of Oscar Miranda; Ángel Strazzeri, former UTNBA student and survivor of the CCD ESMA and Isla del Silencio; and Alberto Barba, former student and colleague of Omar Cherif Ainie Rojas. The group interview was conducted with Adriana Rapetti, widow of Oscar Miranda; Eduardo Triay, former student; Juan Carlos Milinikowicz, graduate; Ángel Strazzeri and Sergio Rabec; Eng. Carlos Lombardi, Director of UDB Chemistry; and Eng. Carlos Trunzo, Director of the Department of Basic Sciences. Based on the data obtained in the interviews conducted, the Commission managed to identify six new victims: Santiago Villanueva, forcibly disappeared on July 26, 1978; Jorge Néstor Livio, murdered on July 22, 1977; Jorge Ferracani, forcibly disappeared on October 30, 1976; Gerardo Strejilevich, forcibly disappeared on June 15, 1977; and CHERIF OMAR AINIE ROJAS, forcibly disappeared on September 11, 1977. Reconstruction of Memory "The contribution of data regarding affiliations and political ties and militant activity from the interviewees allowed us to expand the search, gather data on possible events not registered or misclassified in the RUVTE, and correct erroneous or incomplete data about the victims," explained Matías Ros. During the interviews, the goal was also to "reconstruct the memory of the victims in the words of their relatives, friends, and colleagues, which is another of the Commission's objectives," explained Johanna Fleitas, a student at the Faculty and member of the Commission. The first of the interviews was conducted on August 27 with Norberto Jacubowicz, cousin of Miguel Schwartz, one of the victims who belonged to the UTNBA. On September 2, Adriana Rapetti, wife of Oscar Miranda, a forcibly disappeared person who belonged to the Faculty, was interviewed, along with Eduardo Triay, Juan Carlos Milinikowicz, Ángel Strazzeri, Carlos Lombardi, Carlos Trunzo, and Sergio Rabec, friends of the victim. On September 3, Sergio Rabec, a classmate of José Mendoza, who was detained and forcibly disappeared during the last military dictatorship, was interviewed, and on September 17, a videoconference interview was conducted with Eng. Juan Miranda, who resides in Canada. Miranda is a graduate of the Faculty, a survivor of the ESMA, and brother of Oscar Miranda, a UTNBA forcibly disappeared person, during which Eng. Guillermo Oliveto, Dean of the Faculty, was present. On October 7, Ángel Strazzeri, a former UTNBA student and survivor of the CCD ESMA and Isla del Silencio, was interviewed. On October 8, Alberto Barba, a former student and colleague of CHERIF OMAR AINIE ROJAS, was interviewed. All interviews were conducted by Guillermo Winniky, Matias Ros, and Johanna Fleitas, members of the Permanent Commission, and the photographic and audiovisual record was in charge of the Digital Inclusion Workshop, a record that will be presented at the event to be held on December 16 in the Faculty's Aula Magna. The Commission will continue working with the modality of interviews with relatives and friends of the victims with the objective of expanding the network of connections and favoring the discovery of new cases. This research will be complemented by documentation and audiovisual material available in public archives. The members of the Commission also requested that those who possess data on Victims of State Terrorism who attended the UTN between 1973-1983 contact them via email at: comisionmemoria@frba.utn.edu.ar

Source: frba.utn.edu.ar, 11/22/2019

Date: 11-22-2019

Cherif Omar Ainie Rojas Forcibly disappeared on 9/11/77

He was 21 years old

Cherif was Chilean, but had lived in Argentina since he was a small child. He was studying Chemistry at the UBA. He was kidnapped in Quilmes. The following day, members of the Joint Armed Forces raided his home, taking his identity card.

I knew Cherif Omar Ainie Rojas, who was forcibly disappeared in Quilmes, Buenos Aires province, on September 11, 1977, during the last military dictatorship. Omar was a fan of the Vélez Sarsfield soccer club (the last champion of Argentine soccer), forming part of its official fan base.

While going to watch a match of that team, he was kidnapped by the Buenos Aires provincial police and was apparently taken to the Quilmes police station (data provided by his brother). During his secondary studies at the Eduardo Latzina Technical Education School No. 35, he was a member and founder of the Union of Secondary Students (the student branch of the Montoneros organization), and he was kidnapped while being a member of the Peronist University Youth (the university branch of the same organization).

A week later, his brother was kidnapped, who later regained his freedom. His mother, named Cristina Rojas, was part of the human rights organization Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, having participated in various marches during the disastrous dictatorship. Alberto

Source: desaparecidos.org