He was kidnapped on February 18, 1977, from his home in Temperley, Buenos Aires, by a group of heavily armed individuals. We have no information regarding his time in a clandestine detention center.

Source: http://www.desaparecidos.org

At the ceremony held at the Plaza República de Chile, next to our country's embassy in Buenos Aires, a memorial was inaugurated last Tuesday, September 5, in memory of the 101 Chilean men and women murdered and forcibly disappeared in Argentina.

After the military coup of September 11, 1973, many Chileans sought refuge in Argentina. It was the most accessible place for the vast majority, both for social and union leaders and for leftist militants.

However, the situation in Argentina was complex, as with the arrival to power of Estela Martínez, widow of Perón (July 1, 1974), and her advisor, the sinister José López Rega, the Peronist government underwent a violent right-wing turn, which would include the appearance of death squads that anticipated the work that the Videla dictatorship would later carry out more intensely.

Argentina did not end up being a safe refuge for the Chileans who were escaping state terrorism, much less for the leftist militants who intended to build a rearguard in Argentina for the resistance against the military dictatorship in Chile.

The number of Chileans forcibly disappeared and/or executed in Argentina is extremely high; there are at least 101 people, who today have a memorial that remembers them. It should be noted that the design of this memorial was carried out ad honorem by the Argentine architect Susana Coloma, who is the daughter of a Chilean forcibly disappeared person and an Argentine forcibly disappeared person.

The authorities announced the installation of a commemorative plaque in honor of the Argentine men and women disappeared and executed in Chile after the military coup, which will take place next Monday, September 11, in Santiago.

Source: resumen.cl 8/9/2023

"Vesubio" was a clandestine detention center used by the Army, located near the intersection of Camino de Cintura and the Riccheri Highway, on land belonging to the Federal Penitentiary Service. The concentration camp operated between 1975 and 1978 until its dissolution and complete demolition a year later, following an inspection by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR).

It was under the authority of the First Army Corps, and according to reports and testimonies gathered, some 2,500 detainees passed through there, of whom "very few survived." On Thursday, Nelson Flores, son of Nelson del Carmen Flores Ugarte, who was kidnapped on February 19, 1977, along with his family, Roberto Coria, María Ester Donza, and Cristina Américo, testified.

Nelson Flores Jr., only 5 years old at the time he was kidnapped along with his family, described the operation and his father's militancy. He identified two members of the gang that kidnapped them and concluded by reading María Rosa Pargas's poem "Hubiera querido" ("I would have liked") and stating that "they could not erase them from memory or from history, and that we are here resisting." 30,000 forcibly disappeared persons: Present, now and forever!

Following him, Julia Coria, daughter of María Ester Donza and Roberto Coria, who was only two months old when her parents were kidnapped and was handed over to her maternal grandparents, testified. In 1994, she joined HIJOS and, thanks to the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, she began to learn who her "mom and dad" were.

Nelson del Carmen Flores Ugarte was born in Chile, in a fishing village in the north. Once in Argentina, he settled in the San José neighborhood of Almirante Brown and started his family with Sara and their three children.

In Chile, he participated in organizations that defended the labor rights of fishermen and in the MIR (Revolutionary Left Movement of Chile). Later, in Argentina, he joined the JP Montoneros. He was a construction worker and union delegate.

He was a militant in his neighborhood alongside Roberto Coria (an artisan, nephew of Julio Troxler) and María Ester Donza (a teacher, collaborator at the Don Orione home). He was forcibly disappeared on 02-19-77, when the military arrived at his house with Cristina Américo, a teacher by profession.

Cristina showed signs of having been tortured with electric shocks. In the same operation, they detained María Ester Donza, who was visiting, and later Roberto Coria, her husband, who had come to look for her. All were kidnapped. The Coria couple's daughter was left with her grandparents. Nelson, Cristina, Ester, and Roberto remain forcibly disappeared.

Source: anred.org 3/8/2020

Date: 08-03-2020

Flores Ugarte, Nelson del Carmen

Flores Ugarte, Nelson del Carmen

"Ramón." Chilean by birth, Montonero at heart. He was a militant in that Peronist guerrilla organization in the southern zone of Greater Buenos Aires. Kidnapped and forcibly disappeared on February 19, 1977, in Adrogué, Almirante Brown district, Buenos Aires province. He was 31 years old.

Source: robertobaschetti.com