The event will take place at 7:00 p.m., local time, at the Grupo Octubre stand at the La Rural exhibition center, and will feature the participation of the author, the survivor of the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983) Ana María Careaga and Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel.
First published in 1999, The Years… addresses the extermination plan and crimes against humanity perpetrated by the dictatorial regimes established in Latin America during the second half of the 20th century, which had the support of the United States.
Furthermore, it raises the need to know what happened to analyze the present and avoid repeating the horrors of that period in which in Argentina there were 30 thousand detained-disappeared people and hundreds of children taken from their parents.
According to Calloni, Operation Condor was a counterinsurgency tactic that stood out for the selectivity of its victims, among whom were important political leaders and the leaders of the guerrillas that emerged as the only way out of the submission and terror produced by coups d’état. and the policies of looting and dispossession in the region.
The United States targeted leaders of political parties that mobilized large masses such as Unidad Popular (Chile), Peronista (Argentina) and Frente Amplio (Uruguay), leftist formations or popular movements that grew behind the dream of liberation and recovery. of sovereignty, added the analyst.
The struggle for years of the mothers who lost their children and grandchildren, the families of the disappeared and organizations defending human rights in South America and, especially, in Argentina, allowed the crimes of those years to be revealed.
Despite the prosecution and imprisonment of many of those involved, the silence of the aggressors, the secrets and the declassified files with redactions to protect those most responsible threaten the total clarification of all the violations committed at that time.
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