CONADEP (National
Commission on the Disappearance
of Persons), created in 1984
at the end of the dictatorship,
identified over 360 clandestine
detention centers. Slow progress
was made in following years
in the search for precise information
on these and other centers.
Over two decades later and thanks
to the efforts of survivors,
Human Rights organizations,
the task of judges and public
prosecutors and local, provincial
and national public bodies,
it has been possible to augment
the preliminary information.
Memoria
Abierta has since its inception
had the mission of contributing
to shed more light on the buildings
that served the purposes of
illegal repression, as a means
to prevent that through oblivion
or deliberate activities, their
existence should be negated.
It
is an ongoing task. The data-gathering
and research carried out collectively
with local individuals and organizations,
has led us to design the maps
we present today. These maps
may be printed and used for
pedagogical, study or legal
investigation purposes.
We
trust that they will represent
a new and useful tool to identify
the dimension of State terrorism
in Argentina and understand
the logic and the systematic
nature of the repression. And
also to recognize the task that
still lies before us to build
more precise and federal memory.
