“The staff remains on passive guard in their respective homes,” they announced via WhatsApp broadcast.
He Haroldo Conti Cultural Center will close its doorsas announced by the Human Rights Secretariat this Tuesday. The main reason would be a “internal restructuring” of the space for memory and for the promotion and defense of individual freedoms that has been operating since 2004 at ExEsma.
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Through a WhatsApp broadcast channel, they reported: “The Secretary of Human Rights informs all staff of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center that It will be closed as of January 2, 2025.“.


Likewise, they added that “in order to ensure adequate internal restructuring, reassembly of work teams and analysis of next year’s programming, The staff remains on passive guard in their respective homes, attentive to calls that they be carried out in stages for the aforementioned purposes”.
Under this line, they detailed: “To anyone who has not joined the Voluntary Retirement Plan, or failing that, has joined due to lack of self-interest or because they have not been considered an ‘essential worker’ to obtain their continuity. through an ART 9, MUST NOT BE SUBMITTED after January 2, 2025“.
They called an assembly at the door of the establishment
The closure adds to a large number of layoffs that have been taking place in the secretariat, which caused various demonstrations. Furthermore, in the afternoon, the delegates of the Human Rights Secretariat made a call: “On Thursday 2/1 We gathered at the door of the Secretariat headquarters in the former ESMA at 10 a.m. This is how we all enter together and hold the unified assembly. “Then we go to the Ministry by bus to meet with the rest of the sectors.”
“Given the massive dismissals in the Human Rights Secretariat and the Ministry of Justice, the destruction of Human Rights policies and the imminent closure of the Sites of Memory, We need everyone’s support to continue defending our collective Memory and the policies that preserve it,” they stated.
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The call for Thursday, January 2.
In addition, the actress and former director of the cultural space Lola Berthetexpressed his outrage at the news on his Instagram account: “They have just announced that they are closing Conti due to restructuring and that most of their workers were fired and those who do not enter are on passive guard and cannot enter as of January 2. They do all this at 2:00 p.m. on December 31 via WhatsApp. This Government is evil in every sense. “All my support to the workers of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center, a place that I had the pleasure of directing.”
Source: Ambito