“The discovery of skeletal remains reinforces the desire to find all those detained and disappeared during the Uruguayan dictatorship.”

In Montevideo, as part of the activities promoted by CLACSO to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the coup d'état of June 27, 1973 in Uruguay, they spoke with CLACSO.tv two members of Mothers and Relatives of Detained-Disappeared Uruguayans: Elena Zaffaroni, whose partner Luis Eduardo “Chiqui” González González, a member of the Revolutionary Communist Party, was kidnapped during the dictatorship, and Ignacio Errandonea, former political prisoner.

The interview took place a few days after the discovery of skeletal remains at Battalion No. 14 and an act of recognition by the Uruguayan State to the victims of state terrorism.

Interviewed by Gustavo Lema

50 years after the coup in Uruguay