03/24/2021 4:56 PM
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/24/2021 4:56 PM
The head of the Buenos Aires Government, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, again recalled how his father's kidnapping was during the last military dictatorship, on Wednesday another anniversary of the coup.
"I was 12 years old. I remember that we lived with my old man and with my brothers we took turns sleeping with him. And I remember that one night it was my turn to sleep with him, the girl who worked at home knocked on the door and said
' Sir, they are looking for him downstairs. 'It was weird, 3 in the morning
, I remember I woke up, "said the Buenos Aires president.
The PRO's referent spoke again about that episode that occurred in 1977 and that featured his homonymous father, Horacio Rodríguez Larreta, who died in 2004. Now, he provided more details through a series of videos that he broadcast on his twitter account.
On March 24, we began to live the most painful chapter in our history, in which the violation of human rights was a constant of a de facto government responsible for crimes against humanity and state terrorism.
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"Dad got up and said
'I'm going to see who it is.' And he didn't come back
. Later we found out, from someone who saw him downstairs, I don't know if a night watchman or who saw him, that he came down as if to open up and that
they grabbed him and literally
in a green Falcon they took him away
, in a symbolic Falcon see
of.
And it disappeared
, we had no more news, "he recalled.
The father of the Buenos Aires head of government was a renowned businessman in the petrochemical sector, leader of the Movement for Integration and Development (MID) and, at the time of the kidnapping, he was also the president of Racing Club de Avellaneda.
"I remember as if it were today that the next day or the following afternoon or after, a lot of people came to our house that I
felt they offered us their condolences
. A situation ... Obviously at 12, one understands everything and I felt that I lost my dad in that situation, where nobody tells you, as they want to preserve the boys, but one at that age captures, "he added.
Rodríguez Larreta remarked that "he had already heard" talk about the disappeared in those days.
"There
had
already
been talk of missing people,
it was already beginning to be heard. In my house there were a lot of
Politics, my old man was a leader of the MID, all his life.
My old man was
close to the priest (Carlos) Mugica.
He married my parents and baptized us, a Racing fan ", he highlighted.
"And I remember that my uncle Augusto, who was an actor, said 'well, rest assured that I'm going to take care of it.' And the days began to pass. And what about dad and dad? And another day passed. Note that they don't want to tell you something that is already very obvious. There was my grandmother who came to live with us, my mother was also very present, "she said to describe the desperate situation she lived through at that time.
Rodríguez Larreta indicated that ten days later the issue was made public because
there was a match between Racing and River
, and the press warned about
the absence
of his father in the event.
"
It happened that
Racing-River was being played
, a
very visible
match
.
And it was news that the president of Racing did not go to the field and there they began to put together news. Where was the president of Racing?
On the sports side, the disappearance
of the president of Racing appeared and then it was made public that the president of a football club had disappeared, "he said.
For the Buenos Aires president, that situation was decisive.
"By going public for an issue other than politics, that saved his life," he considered.
Rodríguez Larreta indicated that, in his family, they suspect that his father was kidnapped and disappeared during those days in the clandestine detention center known as El Pozo de Banfield.
"It was never known, because a long time later he told that
they took him bandaged,
" he remarked.
.
"It is a story, an experience that left me very marked. I don't know whether to say luck to him because the situation was horrible. (But) the visibility of my old man as president of a soccer club saved his life. Many others did not have that luck. and today he regrets, "he said.
Also the mother and her actor husband
In addition, he explained that he also evidenced the horror of the last military dictatorship due to the situations faced by
his mother María Cristina Díaz Alberdi
.
"I also lived the issue with my mother. She was married to
Emilio Alfaro
, who was part of a group of
highly persecuted actors
at that time, who could not work. He came from the so-called Stivel clan, very prestigious and none could work in the Argentina. With which I also lived from my mother's house
the harshness of those years,
"he added.
"It was an experience that marked me. And it made me understand what those very hard years were for Argentina," he completed.
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