On Monday, February 23 at 9:30 a.m. in the Federal Courts of La Plata, the hearings of the oral and public trial who will have on the bench three members of the National University Concentration (CNU)accused of crimes against humanity committed in the period prior to March 24, 1976against 13 victims: Jorge Rosendo Ruda, Ricardo Arturo Rave, Alcides Emilio Méndez Paz, Daniel Rayson Midon, Walter Martini, Elia Zanata, Graciela Martini, Néstor Dinotto, Hugo Pastorino, Adelaida Úrsula Barón, Carlos Alberto Sathicq, Leonardo Guillermo Miceli and Horacio Salvador Urrera.
The accused are Carlos Ernesto “The Indian” Castillo, Juan José “Pipi” Pomares and Agustín Antonio “Tony” Jesús. Castillo is the only one who has been serving a sentence in Unit 34 of Campo de Mayo since 2018. Jesús and Pomares enjoy the benefit of house arrest.
It is worth remembering that the CNU had its criminal actions centrally in La Plata and Mar del Plata. Although its creation dates back to 1965, its robberies, kidnappings and murders developed intensely when the Triple A and José López Rega They took over the political-criminal scene in Argentina. Acting in collaboration with that organization or alone, the CNU committed dozens of crimes that remain unpunished to this day.
Castillo He has been detained for some years, although he remained free for much of the time that has passed since the crimes he committed. During the 1990s he joined the carapintada movement and became an enthusiastic militant of Modin, Aldo Rico’s party.
The case of Orchards It is even more scandalous, since once the dictatorship ended, Pipi knew join the PJ early and spent several decades performing functions for the different Peronist governments, always in the Province of Buenos Aires. Close relationship with the mayor of La Plata, Julio Alak.was a member of his staff in his first administrations and during the Kirchnerist decade he joined as an “advisor” to the block of senators of the Front for Victory of the provincial Legislature.
“Tony” Jesushe worked at the Hippodrome while he was a preceptor at the National College. In February 1984 he entered the Chamber of Deputies of the Province of Buenos Aires as an employee, appointed director of Legislative References in December 2003, when the president of the Chamber was the Duhaldist Osvaldo Mércuri.
The trial will be broadcast live on the YouTube channels of the Judiciary y La Retaguardia TV and you can track coverage by The Daily Left.
Days away from completion 50 years of the last dictatorshipand in the face of the fierce attack of the denialist government of Milei and its accomplices against the working class and the people, today more than ever we raise the flags of struggle of our comrades and say “There are 30 thousand, it was Genocide”.
Source: www.laizquierdadiario.com
