Axel Kicillof repudiated the closure of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center and said that the defense of human rights “places us as an example to the world”

The year began with news that surprised all the workers linked to the memory policies in the country: arguing a “internal restructuring”, he Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation, Alberto Bañosdefined the closing of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center that worked in the exESMA. To the criticisms of different protagonists, now those of Axel Kicillof.

Through his social networks, the governor of the province of Buenos Aires understood that “It is not ‘restructuring’, it is a policy of adjustment in human rights” and repudiated the “brutal adjustment of the national government to human rights policies.” “We repudiate these measures that mean a violation of human rights in a country that has had 41 years of democracy through a social consensus of Never Again.”he added.

After alluding to the 50 workers from the Haroldo Conti Cultural Centerwho were exempt from performing duties, Kicillof said that “ More than 250 workers were fired and the employment of 300 in the National Human Rights Secretariat is in danger.which yesterday woke up with a police presence at the door, deciding who enters and who does not.

Finally, he explained that “in the Buenos Aires territory we created the Specialized Provincial Unit for the search for appropriate people during the last dictatorship, which added to the enhancement of the Memory Spaces”. His message concludes by claiming that the “general deepening of the public promotion and protection policies carried out in the area of ​​human rights and that They place us as an example before the world.”

They call for a festival in defense of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Center

The workers of the Haroldo Conti Cultural Centerlocated on the property of the former Navy Mechanics School (ESMA), They called for an artistic festival in defense of the institutionwhose closure was announced by the Government.

Now, the space workers, together with representatives and human rights defense groups, called for an artistic festival titled “A memory that burns”which will take place this Saturday, January 4 at 6 p.m., at Libertador 8151.

“They sent us to live through the January fire at home and we are going to listen to them. Therefore, this “Saturday, January 4, we met at the door of the Conti with the candles lit,” They indicated from the Capital Federal branch of the State Workers Association (ATE).

At the same time, the invitation says: “We call on our beautiful, dignified communitybelligerent – the one that made this great stage strength, transformation and freedom of truth – to accompany us.

“Bring your words, your chords, your masks, your poems, your intensity, your discomfort, your joy. Bring your heart set on fire, stuck in a knife, with its roots exposed to the elements,” the call states. And he concludes: “May the memory burn, may the story continue, may the Conti continue standing.”