Vidal, Carlotto head up inauguration of new BA province remembrance site
The governor of Buenos Aires province, María Eugenia Vidal, today inaugurated a new remembrance site in the former Police Station No. 5 of La Plata, a former clandestine detention centre and will lease the property to the Association of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo for 30 years.
In attendance was the President of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights organisation Estela de Carlotto,officialsfromtheBuenos Aires government and social organisations, as well as Leonardo Fossati, one of the recovered grandchildren who was born inside its walls.
The appearance of the Vidal and Carlotto together was notable, considering the human rights leader’s frequent criticism of Presdient Mauricio Macri and the Let’s Change (Cambiemos)administration’s policies.Boththegovernorand the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo leader paid tribute to each other in their respective speeches.
“Memory has no political party,” Vidal shared during a brief speech at the ceremony.
“This demonstrates political goodwill, we celebrate that,” Carlotto said in her speech.
Police Station No. 5 functioned, between April 1976 and February 1978, as a clandestine detention centre that housed more than 200 people, among them children and at least 13 pregnant women who gave birth in what came to be known as clandestine maternity ward.