This Tuesday, a few hours after A multitude flooded the streets of the center of Buenos Aires and other cities in the country to repudiate crimes against humanity committed by the military dictatorship, The Government deliberately ordered the demolition of the monument in honor of the outstanding historian, journalist and fighter for human rights Osvaldo Bayer.
Through national roads, it was carried out at the entrance to the city of Río Gallegos, Santa Cruz, where he was, as part of the “cultural battle” reactionary and bestial that the Government of Milei intends to establish. Through a bump he believes that he can erase the tradition of struggle that the writer embodied with his work The rebel Patagoniaacclaimed to the wide and length of the country and international level.
His son Esteban wrote in the newspaper Page 12: “The old man did not stop all the blows they gave him throughout his life. And less they will stop now with a top. They tried to silence their truth with the most diverse mechanisms of repression and persecution. If they learned from memory, they would know that all their attempts failed … The landowners of Patagonia, the military, the hierarchs of the rural society, the alcahuetes on duty, the denaders of the genocide to the original peoples, the accomplices of the dictatorships, the detractors of mothers and grandmothers, the owners of the newspapers that prohibited him and threw, never accepted the permanent challenge of the ethics of Osvaldothat summoned them to discuss the truth. They never had that courage. They opted for the vile and ruthless attack, and they know about that. ”
In the same sense, his daughter Ana Bayer declared: “My father censored in life, the books were burned, he was in jail, but he would never have imagined a top to erase his name… a barbarity what they have done for the artist, for Osvaldo, for the strikers, the 1500 shot, for Patagonia and their history. But he’s more alive than ever, he went wrong. Today at 1:00 in Buenos Aires there will be a march in front of the rock monument on Peru Street at 1. Patagonia will continue to be my old rebel rebel than ever. ”
For the sculptor of the work tribute to Osvaldo Bayer, Jerónimo Villalba, “the National Government wants to destroy our history and our rights to meet and remember it.”
Various figures from a wide political arch, of culture and union expressed their total reactionary size repudiation. Pablo Grasso, the mayor of Río Gallegos, was really a blow. They put the leg and do not know how to get out “. And declared that “Of course” they will raise the monument “within what is the ejido”but with another work because “the damage they have done” was so serious “that they can’t fix it.”
The deputies on the left Nicolás del Caño and Vanina Biasi del Fit, Senator Alicia Kirchner, the former Minister of Culture of the Government0 of Mauricio Macri Pablo Avelluto, journalists such as Alejandro Bercovich and Angela Lerena. From the union or the unified union of workers of Fuegian Education (SUTEF) and the Confederation of Education Workers of the Argentine Republic (CTERA) They are the first who expressed their repudiation of an endless list of personalities.
At the moment an act of relief is convened by his daughter Ana in front of the monument to Julio Argentino Roca – in which Osvaldo Bayer expressed himself – in the city of Buenos Aires. The leader Raúl Godoy, ceramist of the expropriated Zanónmilitant factory without employers, repudiated the attack on the monument to the teacher Osvaldo. He also remembered his portrait the struggles of the workers of Patagonia many years ago but also “Remember it in Zanon, at the factory door, banking the take and occupation, a thousand times, so Osvaldo Bayer is a man of the house, of the workers’ efforts as in each fight of workers around the world”.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
