Due to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the assassination of Father Carlos Mugica we present this extract from an audiovisual production about his life. The full video is available for public consultation.

From 9 to June 11, 2008, Memoria Abierta and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience organized the regional workshop "Transmission of memory and political culture".

The inaugural conference "Political culture and memory" was headed by professors Carlos Altamirano and Hector Schmucler and took place in the courtroom Augusto Cortazar of the National Library.

During the workshop, the participants worked around the tensions and challenges in the transmission of the recent past and around the relationship between political culture and places of memory.

16 organizations from 5 different countries attended the workshop: Corporación Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi (Chile); Colectivo Londres 38 (Chile); Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos y Asesinados por Razones Políticas del Paraguay (Paraguay); Museo de las Memorias: Dictaduras y Derechos Humanos (Paraguay); Instituto de Diálogo y Propuestas (Perú); Paz y Esperanza (Perú); Museo de la Memoria (Uruguay); Museo de la Memoria (Rosario, Argentina); Subsecretaría de Derechos Humanos de Chubut; Casa por la Memoria y la Cultura Popular (Mendoza, Argentina); Archivo Provincial por la Memoria de Córdoba; Proyecto de Extensión de Interés Social "Memoria e Historia del Pasado Reciente. Problemas didácticos y disciplinares" de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral y la Asociación del Magisterio de la Santa Fe - AMSAFE (Santa Fe, Argentina); Asociación Civil Hijos de una Misma Historia (Mar del Plata, Argentina); Comisión Provincial por la Memoria (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Comisión de Consenso y Trabajo del CCD "El Olimpo" (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Comisión de familiares, sobrevivientes y compañeros de las víctimas de los CCD El Vesubio y Protobanco (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

Four new groups of homage to victims of the terrorism of State were incorporated to the Walk of Human Rights.

The groups are:
* Familiares de desaparecidos de origen europeo
* Federación Judicial Argentina
* Escritores y periodistas
* Facultades de Ingeniería, Arquitectura y Ciencias Económicas (UBA)

The groups that already formed part of the Walk were also be present: Escuela Superior de Comercio Carlos Pellegrini; Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires; Comunidad Boliviana; Obreros Navales Desaparecidos; Asociación de ex - trabajadores y familiares de desaparecidos de Mercedes Benz Argentina; Comisión por la memoria y justicia de Villa Lugano, Villa Soldati y Villa Celina; Asociación de familiares de desaparecidos judíos.

The federal court of Instruction No. 3, lead by Dr. Daniel Rafecas, realized on the August 4, 2006 the judicial inspection of the clandestine detention centre “Automotores Orletti”.

Memoria Abierta made a virtual presentation that combines that photographic registry, the physical relief, and the act of the judicial inspection (realized on July 5th) that has been incorporated to the cause 2637/2004 “VAELLO/ ORESTES s/ illegitimate deprivation of the aggravated liberty and homicide.”

This virtual presentation of the photographic registry and the physical relief results from the recognition to the 1st Comisaría of Monte Grande, taken into effect by the Federal court of Instruction No. 3 and survivors of the location on March 2, 2006.

In the frame of the Workshop "Public use of the historic places for the broadcast of the memory", Hector Schmucler shared its reflections around "The disturbing relation between places and memories". 

Posters are documents produced to be exhibited in public places in order to communicate ideas, to report, to notify an event, to commemorate, to call to an action. Their permanence in public space is, therefore, ephemeral. They include attractive graphics, drawings or paintings, mottoes or orders that communicate with eloquence an idea. They also have a great value as an historic document. 

Through the diffusion of this collection, we want to facilitate the access to this kind of documents that is, in general, difficult. 

Memoria Abierta takes part in a project to construct an Interpretation center in the clandestine detention center Mansi�n Ser�. The center is located in the sports club Gorki Grana in the municipality of Mor�n in the Province of Buenos Aires.

At this location, for a couple of years the excavation for the clandestine detention center has been taking place. Here, can also be found the house for memory and life and the Human Rights center of the municipality of Mor�n.

The First phase of the construction for the Interpretation center of the clandestine detention center of Mansi�n Ser� will be finished by the end of September.

Co-edited by Memoria Abierta and the CeDinCi, and compiled by Vera Carnovale, Federico Lorenz, and Roberto Pittaluga, Historia, Memoria y Fuentes Orales is a posthumous tribute to Dora Schwarzstein who contributed her training and dedication to Memoria Abierta's Oral Archive.

The book was presented on 27 of April in the room Mar�a Esther of Miguel of the Feria Internacional del Libro with the participation Dora Barrancos, Hilda Sabato y Roberto Pittaluga.

The educational collection "De Memoria" was produced by the work Memoria Abierta carries out to build a social memory of State terrorism. "De Memoria" was developed with the support of the Secretary of Education of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires. It is composed of three volumes, which together cover the years that preceded the coup d'etat of March 24th, 1976, the period of State terrorism, and the years of the democratic reopening.

In an unprecedented initiative, the files that contain information about human rights violations committed during the last military dictatorship were presented jointly by the State and the civil society to the program "Memory of the World" (UNESCO). In the year 2007, the Committee of "Memory of the World" will resolve if these documentary funds can be considered as a world heritage.

September 20th of 2004 marked 20 years since the presentation of the report made by the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (CONADEP) to the then president of the Republic, Dr. Raul Alfons�n. To commemorate the date, Memoria Abierta produced the graphic exhibit "XX years of NUNCA MAS".

In the 1980s, during an event that took place in Las Heras Park, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo created banners displaying the lives of their children. On the banners, the Mothers included various objects such as school report cards, pictures, letters, poems, etc., to share the lives and ideals of the victims of state terrorism.

Memoria Abierta received the Prince Claus prize for its contribution to the knowledge of the past and the consolidation of a democratic culture. Annually since 1997, the Dutch foundation Prince Clause gives awards to artists, thinkers, and cultural institutions of Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. In this way, the Foundation gives homage to the work and dedication of the award recipients. The recipients in 2004 were selected for their contribution in the fields of theatre, dance, literature, sports, cultural heritage and social commitment.