Abstract

T search for justice, truth, and memory regarding Lesa Humanity Crimes, committed in Argentina during the last military dictatorship (19761983), faced a new phase since 2003. Trials against genocide were reopened, and public policies on memory were fostered by the State. The construction of Sites of Memory that had been Clandestine Centers of Detention is one of the most outstanding developments of the period. Clandestine Centers of Detention were crucial to the plan of annihilating political opposition. In that context, 30 thousand people (unionists, members of political parties and of revolutionary movements) were kidnapped, tortured, and disappeared. Many activists were also imprisoned, and others left in exile. Public policies for the creation of Sites of Memory in ex Clandestine Centers of Detention are diverse. In the case of Ex Clandestine Center of Detention Olimpo (located in the city EX CLANDESTINE CENTER OF DETENTION OLIMPO: THE MAKING OF A SITE OF MEMORY

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