In the footsteps of the past. Twenty years after the opening of the San Vicente graves

Victoria Chabrando; Lucía Ríos; Darío Olmo; Luis Miguel “Vitin” Baronetto; Moisés David Dib; Ana Mariani

In the footsteps of the past. Twenty years after the opening of the San Vicente graves

Authors

Victoria Chabrando (ed)

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía

Lucía Ríos (ed)

Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Facultad de Filosofía y Humanidades

Keywords:

human rights, Córdoba (Argentina), state terrorism, crimes against humanity, forced disappearances, exhumation of bodies, identification of victims, forensic anthropology, memory, truth, and justice, San Vicente Cemetery (Córdoba, Argentina), military dictatorship - 1976-1983, trials for crimes against humanity, journalism and human rights, social movements and human rights, National University of Córdoba, Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), disappeared persons

Synopsis

The new political direction taken by Argentina in and since 2003 was decisive in reopening trials for crimes against humanity that had been stalled until then, and the discovery of the mass graves at the San Vicente Cemetery provided eloquent proof of the crimes committed by the civil-military-ecclesiastical dictatorship and represented a fundamental advance in the struggle for Memory, Truth, and Justice. The compilation of texts presented here represents the voices of the experiences and people who played a leading role in that search, discovery, and identification. The writings offered here reflect on and commemorate the events that mobilized the entire society, 20 years after the opening of the graves in the San Vicente Cemetery by members of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) and collaborators from different parts of the country and from our National University of Córdoba (UNC).

Chapters

Preface

Victoria Chabrando, Lucía Ríos

PFD
20 years since the opening of the San Vicente graves

Darío Olmo

PFD
“Footprints that don't disappear” or “Footprints that give life”

Luis Miguel “Vitin” Baronetto

PFD
The San Vicente Pit and the Institute of Forensic Medicine

Moisés David Dib

PFD
Twenty years after the opening of one of the largest mass graves in the country

Ana Mariani

PFD

Author Biographies

Darío Olmo

Bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Honorary Doctorate from the National University of La Plata. Founding member and researcher at the EAAF for 28 years. Undersecretary for Human Rights in the Province of Córdoba between 2008 and 2011 and between 2015 and 2017. He has held teaching positions at the UNC and the UPC between 2017 and the present. He currently teaches Forensic Anthropology and the Field Work Workshop in the Bioanthropology Area of the Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the UNC. He also serves as director of the University Center for Social Studies at the Provincial University of Córdoba.

Luis Miguel “Vitin” Baronetto

Social and political activist. Former political prisoner. Member of the leadership of the Banking Association and Internal Trade Union Board of the Bank of Córdoba, training secretary and deputy secretary of the CTA in the province of Córdoba. Founder and director of the magazine Tiempo Latinoamericano. Director of human rights for the Municipality of Córdoba (2003-2011). Author of several books on human rights. Plaintiff in the trial for the murder of Bishop Angelelli, the UP1 prison shootings, and the case of the Magistrates, which was reopened yesterday in TOF 2. Studied philosophy and theology at the Major Seminary of Córdoba.

Moisés David Dib

He currently serves as Head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine of the Province of Córdoba. University professor. Former Secretary General of ADIUC.

Ana Mariani

Journalist. He worked in Barcelona for the publishing houses Seix Barral and Gustavo Gili, and in Córdoba he worked for three years at the newspapers Córdoba and Tiempo de Córdoba, and for twenty-six years at the newspaper La Voz del Interior.
Her focus has always been on human rights issues and collective situations of abuse, discrimination, and poverty. For almost four years, she covered the La Perla Mega-Trial, where military personnel, police officers, and civilians were tried for crimes against humanity. Among other awards, she won first prize in the Adepa Awards in 2002, in the Public Good category, for her articles on the right to identity and irregularities in the placement of children for adoption. She is co-author of a multimedia publication on the exhumation of disappeared persons in the San Vicente cemetery, based on her research, which in 2005 was selected as a finalist for the New Ibero-American Journalism Foundation award, directed by Gabriel García Márquez.