“It was our friend, our partner, one of ours.” “He left a companion.” The words of Estela de Carlotto and of Taty Almeida summary the feeling of many and many when remembering the figure of Hugo SorianiGeneral Director of Page/12who died last April 11, at 71. For his work as a journalist and for his role in this newspaper, of which he was one of the founders, for his militancy and for his history, Hugo leaves a legacy that is recognized and valued in diverse areas. What he did and what he was will be remembered next Tuesday, May 6, at 20.30, in the José Hernández room of the Book Fair. Next to Estela and Taty, they will participate León Gieco, Víctor Hugo Morales, Francisco “Paco” Olveira, Nora Veiras, Luis Bruschtein and Paula Español. The entrance to the fair after 20 will be free, and also the event will be broadcast live on the website of Page, www.pagina12.com.ar.
In addition to as “a great friend, a great companion”, the president of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo remembers Hugo as “one of those people we carry in our hearts. “ “He was a friend, he always helped us, he always accompanied us in our task, in all the ways he could. It was really a very big and premature loss, because for us he was young, he was one of ‘the boys,” Estela located. After spending ten years as a political prisoner – he was arrested in December 1974, while fulfilling mandatory military service, and released in December 1983 – Soriani linked in various ways to the human rights movement. Estela highlighted the reminders as a distinctive brand of this newspaper (his daughter Laura’s was the first to Page/12 He published, in 1987), inaugurating a way to remember those who were never found again. “Thus we were helped to show that we were victims, to remember dates, put names and faces, and some words to give us even the comfort of saying: we remember them, they were fighters, these were their dreams.”
“There is no way not to remember with a smile our dear Hugo, a companion,” Taty says when evoking it, indeed, with a smile. “He always laughed, said we had many things in common: he in the ERP, Alejandro in the ERP, his father Milico, my father Milico. It was a tremendous loss, but Hugo always, always, will continue present!”
From the relationship of Hugo Soriani, that young militant, with that father “Milico” left testimony himself in the endearing Captain’s lettersa recognition through the correspondence he received from his father, infantry officer -Hugo was called, like him, but has remained in the memory of anyone who has read the book as “Captain Soriani“, as his son names him.” They were letters that, even in difference and above all from The difference sustained it throughout the ten years that it happened in different penalties as a political prisoner, being transferred to Magdalena, Caseros, Rawson, devotee, from his 21 recently fulfilled to his 30 years. “I want to testify through my old man of everything that banned us relatives,” Hugo once said.
The stories he lived in those prisons also appear in his book The days were like that, where Soriani opens the way to The prison, politics, journalism, football and rock from the last page. That is, from the backgrounds of this newspaper, where he also left testimony and also created the Mozo Osvaldo, a figure with which he knew how to paint chronicles of the Argentine political and social present, marked by the humor and the words of another era that he treasured.
León Giecohis great friend from a while he does not remember or cares to fix, he will be in the tribute with his guitar and his harmonica. Surely he will be part of the shared repertoire as a tribute “Iron men”: “It was the song that Huguito listened to when I was imprisoned, he told me a thousand times. It meant a lot to him,” he said.
“Hugo was a quarry of anecdote Daughter -in -lawdirector of the newspaper. “Hugo is always and every day, in this permanent loop that is to make a newspaper. All the time, with Viki (Victoria Ginzberg), with Ernesto (Tiffenberg), with our fellow publishers, the phrase comes out: o permanent”
“Hugo was a fighting.
