The 3rd-year Coordination Department has been carrying out different activities to commemorate the National Day of Memory for Truth and Justice. Among them, a meeting with Tatiana Sfiligoy -the first granddaughter found by Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo- was organized. Tatiana told her story and answered the students’ questions.We would like to share with you a text by Eduardo Galeano, which was read during the activity:
Does history repeat? Or does it repeat as a punishment to those who are incapable of listening to it? There is no dumb history. No matter how much they burn it, or break it, or lie about it, human history refuses to shut up. The right to recall does not appear among the human rights established by the United Nations, but today it is vital to vindicate it and put it into practice: not so as to repeat the past, but to prevent it from repeating; not so that we -who are alive- become ventriloquists of those who are dead, but to be able to speak aloud without being condemned to the perpetual eco of stupidity and disgrace. When the memory is truly alive, it is in the air we breathe, and memory, from the air, breathes us.
