A project that seeks to restore the original name of the station was introduced in the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires Entre Ríos on subway line Eremoving the reference to the journalist Rodolfo Walsh.
This is an initiative promoted by liberal legislators Yamil Santoro and Ramiro Marra, along with Silvia Imas, Jorge Reta, Pablo Donati and Rebeca Fleitas.
The project proposes eliminating the reference to Rodolfo Walsh in the station’s current name, based “on historical, legal and ethical foundations supported by a recent court ruling.”
Initiative seeks to change the name of the Rodolfo Walsh subway station
The text seeks to restore the original name “Entre Ríos” to the subway Line E station, eliminating the addition “Rodolfo Walsh.”
The initiative arises in response to “a recent ruling by the Federal Criminal and Correctional Chamber that indicates Walsh’s participation in one of the most serious attacks in Argentine history.”
According to the project, the court ruling, in the case “Salgado, José María and others without appeal”, establishes “Walsh’s responsibility in planning the attack on the Federal Security Superintendence that occurred on July 2, 1976” .
“This attack left 23 dead and more than 100 injured, with evidence of premeditation and treachery that classifies the event as an act of terrorism with serious violations of human rights,” the project indicated.
“We cannot relativize crimes of this magnitude by allowing figures involved in serious human rights violations to be honored in public spaces,” explained the project’s authors.
The text points out that keeping Walsh’s name on the station constitutes a “contradiction with democratic values and an erroneous message to society, since it implies relativizing the seriousness of acts of terrorism.”
Furthermore, it “underlines the State’s duty to preserve a complete and truthful historical memory, in line with the judicial mandate to prioritize truth and justice in the construction of a collective memory.”
“This change is not a judgment on Walsh’s literary or journalistic work, but a decision based on judicially proven facts that link him to atrocious crimes. It is time to do justice to the victims and their families, reaching the ideal of truth,” Santoro added.
Source: Ambito
