Embassy of Spain, Buenos Aires (Argentina)

The Secretary of State for Democratic Memory, on his institutional visit to Buenos Aires, paid tribute to the disappeared Spaniards, victims of the repression of the Argentine military dictatorships, together with the ambassador of Spain and Consuelo Cataño, president of the Commission of Missing Spaniards. The event took place next to the trail that reminds them in the gardens of the Spanish embassy.

After the visit of the Buenos Aires Memorial Park, he held several meetings with the Secretary of Human Rights of the Nation, Horacio Pietragalla, the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF) and the president of the National Archive of Memory, Marcelo Castillo, at the ESMA Memorial Site Museum, a former clandestine center of detention, torture and extermination, converted into a Space for Memory and the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights.

In the meetings, the experiences of both countries have been exchanged in the search for missing persons, the defense of human rights and the need to make pedagogy about memory so that the traumatic events that have happened in different times in our countries NEVER AGAIN are repeated. The line of previously open collaboration between the two Secretaries of State has been deepened and steps have been taken to digitize the existing documentation in the National Archive of the Memory of the Spanish Disappeared in Argentina.

For Fernando Martínez "it has been a very enriching experience to know live the testimonies and the advances made in the Argentine Republic on Human Rights and Democratic Memory and to see the possibilities that we have to advance together in something as fundamental for Democracy as Memory".

In the meeting with the Spanish community, held at the Spanish Club of Buenos Aires, the Secretary of State for Democratic Memory has had the opportunity to present the fundamental axes on which the Democratic Memory Law is based, recently approved by the Spanish Courts, and to publicize the new cases of access to nationality contemplated in its articles.