The case of Jorge Julio López It is, as the remembered early Adriana Calvoa true “monument to impunity” that exposes the continuity of repressive practices and the lack of real justice for those responsible for state terrorism.
His disappearance on September 18, 2006 in the capital of the province of Buenos Aires, in full “democracy”, showed that The repression gears of the 70s were never inconvenient completely And how much Survivors as witnesses remained target of persecution and attacks.
This Thursday at 17 Genocide survivors, relatives of victims together with human, social, union, student rights organizations and the left will march in the Buenos Aires capital, from Plaza Moreno to Plaza San Martín. The Multisectorial La Plata-Berisso-Ensenada Convene with the slogans “Appearance with life now”, “The State is responsible”, “With the progenocida government of mercy y Villarruel impunity grows that all governments guaranteed “, “Enough of repression, criminalization, hunger and adjustment”, “out Bullrich !”, “Enough of genocide” y “Free Palestine”.
The figure of López continues to question society. His name resonates in each march and is a flag in each new claim Memory, Truth and Justice. Remember that the fight against impunity did not end and that this democracy for rich has the disappeared and crimes without punishment as an indelible brand. For whom They ruled the country and the province In all these years, your image will never cease to be An uncomfortable accusation. The tireless search for truth and justice that the own López They are flags that never get off.
In these 19 years they passed Néstor Kirchner, Cristina Fernández, Mauricio Macri, Alberto Fernández y Javier Milei by the Casa Rosada. The same did in the governorate Felipe Solá, Daniel Scioli, María Eugenia Vidal y Axel Kicillof. None of them, along with their respective cabinets, They did absolutely nothing to find López and judge and condemn the culprits of his forced disappearance. More than one acknowledged that, first of all, it was key to sustain The “governance” of the Buenos Aires Policemaximum suspicion of kidnapping.
Less than three months before disappearing, López declared in the trial against Miguel Osvaldo Etchecolatz. There he launched a overwhelming phrase: “He is a serial murderer, he had no compassion.” It was one of the first open judicial processes after the cancellation of the Alfonsinist laws of Due obedience y Final pointsustained by radicalism and Peronism for two decades and falls due to the enormous struggle of the Argentine human rights movement.
After living long years in the most complete impunity, Etchecolatz ended up sentenced to perpetual for the murders of Diana Teruggi De Mariani, Marco Ambrose, Patricia dell’Orto, Elena Arce, Nora Ant y Margarita Delgado; In addition to the kidnappings of López and remembered Nilda Eloy (also witness at the trial).
The morning of September 18, 2006 Julio He left his house in the neighborhood of Los Hornos. He wanted to witness the audience in which his lawyers Myriam Bregman y Guadalupe Godoy They were going to present the allegations of the complaint at the trial. And he had also promised to be the next day, in which the sentence would be issued. But it never arrived. “López is missing,” he said barely aware Adriana Calvofounder of the Association of former Disagreement Detainees .
He systematic cover -up of political and judicial power towards the Buenos Aires police He turned this cause into a true symbol of impunity. Because it is not a case like so many others of kidnappings and disappearances in Buenos Aires territory during the last decades, but also exposed The living brands of the dictatorship and the covenant of silence with their managersa tacit agreement that all governments respected beyond their speeches. In almost twenty years and despite the fact that the crime occurred in the political heart of the province of Buenos Aires, There is not a single accused.
Where is Julio López? 19 years have passed since he was the victim of a second forced disappearance and the question is as valid as from the first day.
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