From 9 to June 11, 2008, Memoria Abierta and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience organized the regional workshop "Transmission of memory and political culture".

The inaugural conference "Political culture and memory" was headed by professors Carlos Altamirano and Hector Schmucler and took place in the courtroom Augusto Cortazar of the National Library.

During the workshop, the participants worked around the tensions and challenges in the transmission of the recent past and around the relationship between political culture and places of memory.

16 organizations from 5 different countries attended the workshop: Corporación Parque por la Paz Villa Grimaldi (Chile); Colectivo Londres 38 (Chile); Familiares de Detenidos-Desaparecidos y Asesinados por Razones Políticas del Paraguay (Paraguay); Museo de las Memorias: Dictaduras y Derechos Humanos (Paraguay); Instituto de Diálogo y Propuestas (Perú); Paz y Esperanza (Perú); Museo de la Memoria (Uruguay); Museo de la Memoria (Rosario, Argentina); Subsecretaría de Derechos Humanos de Chubut; Casa por la Memoria y la Cultura Popular (Mendoza, Argentina); Archivo Provincial por la Memoria de Córdoba; Proyecto de Extensión de Interés Social "Memoria e Historia del Pasado Reciente. Problemas didácticos y disciplinares" de la Universidad Nacional del Litoral y la Asociación del Magisterio de la Santa Fe - AMSAFE (Santa Fe, Argentina); Asociación Civil Hijos de una Misma Historia (Mar del Plata, Argentina); Comisión Provincial por la Memoria (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Comisión de Consenso y Trabajo del CCD "El Olimpo" (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Comisión de familiares, sobrevivientes y compañeros de las víctimas de los CCD El Vesubio y Protobanco (Buenos Aires, Argentina).

To commemorate the 39th anniversary of "The Cordobazo" we created an audiovisual with different sources from our archives. Like any selection, is not exhaustive. It includes fragments of Jorge Canelles and Juan Carlos Cena testimonies, and images extracted from the film "Cazadores de utopías" by David Blaustein.

We also present a chronicle written by Rodolfo Walsh and the newspaper of the CGT de los Argentinos referred to the facts (No. 46, June 5, 1969).

The complete sources are available to the public consultation.

See the video (only available in Spanish)

Read the chronicle written by Rodolfo Walsh (only available in Spanish)

Read the newspaper of the CGT de los Argentinos (only available in Spanish)

Due to commemorate the 34th anniversary of the assassination of Father Carlos Mugica we present this extract from an audiovisual production about his life. The full video is available for public consultation.

See the video (only available in Spanish)