News of esma

Milei vs the Music: Free Milo J show at ex-ESMA blocked

13-02-2025 16:48 National government blocks performance by chart-topping star at ex-ESMA clandestine detention centre, prompting anger from artist’s camp.

OBITUARY

Horacio Méndez Carreras upheld dignity and decency in inglorious times

02-05-2024 09:00 Horacio witnessed so much. Some of his experiences were as hilarious as they were chilling, but he did much more than bear witness. He is a man who helped make Argentina a better place.

by Robert Cox

OBITUARY

Horacio Méndez Carreras, human rights lawyer who tracked murder of French nuns, dies at 86

02-05-2024 08:57 Heralded human rights lawyer, who was born in 1937 and passed away on Monday, worked with Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo as plaintiff in the trial probing crimes against humanity committed at ESMA Navy Mechanics School. In 1984, he was contracted by the French state to pursue an almost impossible case: investigating the forced disappearances of French nuns Alice Domon and Léonie Duquet.

POLITICS & HUMAN RIGHTS

Alberto González: ESMA torturer – and vice-president’s mentor

29-03-2024 21:02 He headed the dreaded “underground” of the ESMA Navy Mechanics School concentration camp. Convicted for crimes against humanity, Alberto González was also the first dictatorship-era criminal to be sentenced for rape. He is also the mentor of Argentina’s Vice-President Victoria Villarruel.

by Juan Luis González

Human rights

Victoria Donda’s uncle sentenced to 15 years jail for her dictatorship abduction

04-03-2024 21:51 Retired military officer Adolfo Donda sentenced to 15 years in prison as co-perpetrator of the abduction of his niece, politician Victoria Donda, during dark days of 1976-1983 military dictatorship.

INTERVIEW / PERIODISMO PURO

Silvia Labayrú: ‘I was the first, I believe, to give birth at ESMA’

17-02-2024 06:43 Silvia Labayrú is a survivor of one of Argentina’s darkest places during the 1976-1983 era of state terrorism. Held at the ex-ESMA Navy Mechanics School, which served as a clandestine detention centre during the dictatorship’s rein of terror, she was kidnapped, tortured and raped several times during her captivity. In a feature interview, she recalls her experience and reveals the horrors she suffered during those black days.

by Jorge Fontevecchia

HUMAN RIGHTS

Milei's human rights secretary on future of ex-ESMA memory site

19-12-2023 17:07 New head of Human Rights Secretariat, Alberto Baños, offers Milei government’s first definitions regarding future of ex-ESMA memory site questioned by Vice-President Victoria Villarruel.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Victoria Villarruel criticises ESMA dictatorship world heritage site

14-11-2023 13:55 Far-right vice-presidential candidate Victoria Villarruel suggests ESMA memory site, once home to detention and extermination camp, should be turned into a school; Javier Milei’s running-mate alleges widespread corruption in government’s human rights policies.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Court confirms life sentences for Jorge ‘Tigre’ Acosta and 39 others

19-09-2023 16:34 Federal Criminal Cassation Chamber dismissed appeals by 40 individuals convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life in jail.

HUMAN RIGHTS

Hell becomes heritage: UNESCO honours ex-ESMA detention centre

19-09-2023 15:51 An exercise in memory without hatred has turned the former ESMA Navy Mechanics School, the largest torture and extermination centre during the last military dictatorship’s rein of terror, into a cultural space that hurts but aspires to heal.

HUMAN RIGHTS

UNESCO strives to ensure memory remains part of global heritage

19-09-2023 13:11 While UNESCO has universalist aspirations, memorials are ripe for appropriation for political causes – especially where they touch on bloody events of the past.

Human Rights

Ex-ESMA recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Site

19-09-2023 13:10 Former clandestine detention, torture and extermination camp during era of state terrorism recognised as a World Heritage site by UNESCO.

News of esma

Milei vs the Music: Free Milo J show at ex-ESMA blocked

Horacio Méndez Carreras upheld dignity and decency in inglorious times

Horacio Méndez Carreras, human rights lawyer who tracked murder of French nuns, dies at 86

Alberto González: ESMA torturer – and vice-president’s mentor

Victoria Donda’s uncle sentenced to 15 years jail for her dictatorship abduction

Silvia Labayrú: ‘I was the first, I believe, to give birth at ESMA’

Milei's human rights secretary on future of ex-ESMA memory site

Victoria Villarruel criticises ESMA dictatorship world heritage site

Court confirms life sentences for Jorge ‘Tigre’ Acosta and 39 others

Hell becomes heritage: UNESCO honours ex-ESMA detention centre

UNESCO strives to ensure memory remains part of global heritage

Ex-ESMA recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Site

Argentina declares national mourning as flood death toll hits 16

Argentina’s annual wine exports near US$1-billion mark

'Too soon' to discuss pope's return home, says Vatican source

Milei says IMF deal will wipe out inflation in Argentina

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Federico Sturzenegger anunció medidas para impulsar el uso de casas rodantes en el país

Bullrich anunció que tomará "medidas especiales" con los hinchas de fútbol que marcharán con los jubilados

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Majul se quebró en vivo y Bullrich aseguró que el grupo que la insultó era “violento, politizado y del Polo Obrero”