This Friday morning Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo surprised with the news of the recovery of the grandson 138stolen during the last dictatorship (1976-1983). After noon they held a press conference where they told their story. “We truly hope for you so that you can rebuild your ties with the family that always looked for you and loved you.“was the message they sent him from the exESMA.
They did not release his name, but reported that he was born in December 1976 and is the son of Marta Enriqueta Pourtalé and Juan Carlos Villamayor.both Montonero militants who disappeared at the Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) during the last dictatorship, where he was also born.
“On December 10, 1976, the couple was kidnapped at their home in the City of Buenos Aires.in an operation carried out by people dressed in civilian clothes. She was eight and a half months pregnant,” read Estela de Carlotto, the president of the organization.
The press conference was held at the House of Identity that the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo has in the Memory and Human Rights Space in the former ESMA. The location was not a coincidence. “The couple was seen in the ESMA clandestine detention centerwhich operated on this property, where the birth of grandson 138 may have occurred,” Carlotto explained.
The search for family and the excitement of meeting
“They were thinking of calling the baby they were expecting Soledad or Manuel”he said Carlotto. Finally, it was a boy, but they did not reveal his current name, to preserve it. Who did speak was his brother, Diego Antoniowho sent a message that was read at the press conference. “I am overcome with emotion, you are very welcome. Thank you Grandmothers, you are the national pride, I adore you,” he stated from Spain.
According to what they said from Abuelas, María del Carmen and Carmen Antonio, the sister and mother of Juan Carlos Villamayor, searched for him from the moment they learned of his kidnapping. They presented habeas corpus, visited courts and prisons. They never had answers.
The couple’s first child, Diegoonly 4 years old, He was taken by his captives to a police station in Villa Ballester. Some time later, they notified his uncle Pedro Portaré, who took care of him and raised him since then.
They call for a hug to the former ESMA for dismissals and dismantling of public policies
Human rights and religious organizations and the Association of State Workers (ATE) call for a meeting this Friday at 5 p.m. embrace the Memory and Human Rights Space (former ESMA) in repudiation of 600 layoffs and the dismantling of policies of memory, truth and justice and human rights.
As reported ATE“there are more than 600 families that will be affected by massive layoffs in January.” They hold the Minister of Justice responsible, Mariano Cuneo Libaronaand to the Secretary of Human Rights, Alberto Bañosto “disarm, dismantle and empty” the area.
The layoffs are linked to the official announcement of the termination of labor contracts paid by the Association of Automotive Dealers of the Argentine Republic (ACARA). With this decision, 2,400 workers from the Ministry of Justice, including those from the Human Rights Secretariat, received news of the end of this type of employment without any specific answer as to whether they will be rehired under another modality.
Source: Ambito
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