"How many colleagues who have endured the worst torture have been unable to speak out?"

As part of the activities promoted by CLACSO to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état of June 27, 1973 in Uruguay, he spoke with CLACSO.tv Fernando PereiraPresident of the Broad Front, who remembered the victims of that dark period in his country, asked: "In Uruguay, how many comrades who have lived through the worst torture have not been able to express themselves?"

He also recalled his early steps in social and political activism: “The resistance to the dictatorship is among the best in Uruguayan history, and the struggle, dedication, and lives of the social and political activists are also among the best in Uruguay. And then the transition from the dictatorship was quite an adventure. I was 16 years old and knew what I was doing, and I went to the rally in 1983 convinced that it marked the beginning of the end of the dictatorship. I listened with emotion to the union speeches; it seemed to me that this was the way forward. There were tens of thousands of them… And then a series of very strong, militant social actions brought an end to that dictatorship. But that dictatorship undoubtedly left its mark on many generations, and that is why the need for truth, memory, justice, and 'Never Again' to state terrorism is so important.”

Interviewed by Gustavo Lema

50 years after the coup in Uruguay