En 1982 la Argentina estaba gobernada por una dictadura bajo el mando del teniente general Leopoldo Fortunato Galtieri. El 30 de marzo el movimiento obrero convocó una marcha hacia la plaza de Mayo, en Buenos Aires. Desde 1976 el régimen militar había secuestrado y asesinado a miles de ciudadanos, suprimido el derecho a huelga y prohibido la actividad gremial. Aun así, cincuenta mil personas convergieron en la manifestación que se realizó bajo el lema Paz, Pan y Trabajo, entre gritos de “¡Galtieri, hijo de puta!”, y terminó con enfrentamientos salvajes y más de tres mil detenidos.

Just two days later, on April 2, in the same square, one hundred thousand euphoric citizens raised homeland flags and raised posters with the legend "Long live our navy", while a fervent cry advanced like the bow of a bestial ship: "Galtieri, Galtieri! ".Television showed the Lieutenant General opening the way between a roaring crowd that disputed space to hug him.The voice of a announcer told vehemence: “The excellent Mr. President of the Nation has left to greet his people!Everyone has cheered.The President approached this crowd that acclaimed him and the armed forces for the historical attitude taken in the last hours.Thank you, glorious national armed! ".The broadcaster, the town, the Lieutenant General celebrated that, hours before, national troops had landed in the Falkland Islands, an archipelago of the South Atlantic that had been under English domain for 149 years with the name of Falklands Icelands, and whose sovereignty was always claimed.

A short war, seventy -four days.Few things stopped in the country for that conflict.The soccer team traveled to the World Cup in Spain and debuted on June 13 with a match in which he lost against Belgium.The next day, the war ended.Lieutenant General Galtieri announced the surrender in this way: “Our soldiers fought with supreme effort for the dignity of the nation.Those who fell are alive forever in the heart and the great history of the Argentines (...) we have our heroes.Men of flesh and blood of the present.Names that will be sculpted by us and the generations to come ”.Six hundred forty -nine Argentine soldiers and officers died in combat.The name of more than one hundred of them took thirty -five years to be sculpted.Not in the big story but in a tombstone.

With this shirt I was going to dance.

These are the letters he sent us from the islands.

This is the chain that the bride, the Casado Ring, the Clock, the Navy card, the photos of the denture and the coffin and the pit that are in the report that the forensics were given to us.

At the end of the war, thousands of soldiers returned to their homes but, except for exceptions, the State did not officially notify the death of those who did not return.Day after day, week after week, hundreds of relatives toured the barracks looking for the dead dead, the fired at the foot of a bus weeks before.Stationed on the other side of the walls shouted: "Does anyone know where Andrés Folch is?!";"Araujo, Soldier Araujo!".

Meanwhile, the English army, who had suffered 255 casualties, sent a 32 -year -old officer named Geoffrey Cardozo in order to help his postwar period.Cardozo found an unexpected panorama: the bodies of the Argentines were still scattered in the field.He communicated it to his superiors and, in November 1982, the British government presented a note to the Argentine Military Board asking what to do.According to the historian Federico Lorenz in the text, the Argentine War cemetery in Malvinas: “The military government responded (…) authorizing the burial of its fallen soldiers, but“ reserving the right to decide, when appropriate, about the transfer of theremains (...) from that part of its territory to the continent ".The comings and laps were due to the fact that British official consultations included the word "repatriation", something inadmissible for Argentina as long as it considers the islands part of their territory ”.This was how the fate of hundreds of bodies was reduced to a semantic matter.

Geoffrey Cardozo received the order to assemble a cemetery.He found a place in Darwin's isthmus.He picked.He managed to gather twenty -two twenty -two of them - mute interests, without plates or documents - they were unidentified.He moved them, to all, to the cemetery.He wrapped them in three bags and, in the last one, wrote with indelible ink the name of the site where they had been found.At the crosses of those who had no name he recorded a legend: Argentine soldier only known to God.He prepared a thorough report and sent it to his government that, in turn, he sent it to the Red Cross that, in turn, sent it to the Argentine government.The cemetery was inaugurated on February 19, 1983.Then, Cardozo returned to England.He did not return to the islands but never stopped thinking about them.

I knew how my brother had died twenty -five years after the war.

I thought that cemetery was empty.

They had told me that they were in a common grave.

How nobody told us anything about the work that had done thistle?

In 1982, a military named Héctor Cisneros - whose brother, Mario the Cisneros dog, also military, had died in the war and whose remains had not been identified - founded the Commission of Fallen Falls in the Falkland Islands that sat a line of thoughtClara: all- won and officers- were heroes;They were all the last Argentine bastion on the islands and had to stay there.

In 1983 the dictatorship ended, democracy was restored and war was in memory as the agonizing attempt of the military regime to unite the people around an epic cause.Neither the successive democratic governments nor the armed forces came into contact with - or made a registry of family members of the dead soldiers;They never notified those deaths officially or provided data on how they had occurred.

In 1999, an agreement between countries granted the family commission to maintain the cemetery and in 2004 one of the richest businessmen in the country, Eduardo Eurnekian, paid for his remodeling.He replaced the wooden crosses with white crosses, placed black porphy.Thus, on the anniversaries of the war, the Argentine media began publishing images of that vascular neatness site, a perfect geometry crucified by the wind to which many believed a symbolic space, empty.

Throughout that time, the English officer Geoffrey Cardozo retained a copy of his report, convinced that the Argentine State had made known to the relatives.But in 2008 he knew no: that relatives did not even know about their existence.

On Monday, August 20, 2018, at eight in the morning, a man walks to the Bar Liela, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of La Recoleta, which is still closed at that time.They make two degrees below zero.Walk Erect, lighting a pipe.Upon reaching the corner, with a Spaniard loaded with a British accent, he says: “Oh, no.Is closed.Let's go to my hotel ".British Colonel Geoffrey Cardozo stays a meters from there, invited by the Argentine government: the Senate has given him an honor mention for having collaborated in the identification work of the fallen in the Cemetery of Darwin.As soon as you sit down, your story begins in what, more than an automatic reaction, looks like radical pragmatism.

-When I went to the islands my boss has told me: "Geoffrey, you have to bury these soldiers, it's humanitarian".Then I made a very detailed record, because something told me: 'Maybe in the future your country can exhum to see if it is possible to identify them'.I went wrong for not having identified everyone.

Twenty -six years after the war, in 2008, an ex -combatant, Julio Aro, arrived in London to attend days on posttraumatic stress.They assigned an interpreter: Geoffrey Cardozo.Throughout three days Cardozo heard, unbeliever, Julio Aro's story that said that this year had gone to Darwin's cemetery for the first time, he had looked for the names of companions who had buried and did not understand why they were not evenHow was it possible that there were so many unidentified bodies.

"And there my fury exploded," says Cardozo, ".I delivered that report to my government, which sent it to the Red Cross and the Argentine government.All in 1983.And years later I see that they didn't know what had happened.One night we went with Julio Aro to a pub and, after having a beer, I gave him my report and said: "You will know what to do with him".

But Julio Aro did not understand anything because he didn't speak a single word of English.

On June 11, 2019, at half past six in the afternoon, Julio Aro, ex -combatant and founder of the Foundation Do not forget me, which provides support to people with post -traumatic stress, arrives at a bar in Buenos Aires.In two hours he will undertake the return to the city where he lives, Mar del Plata, 400 kilometers from the capital.Aro went to war at 19, shortly after finishing military service, then mandatory.When the conflict ended, he returned to his town-Mercedes, province of Buenos Aires-in a long row of buses that took two hours to travel the last kilometers: thousands had gone to receive them.

-But there was no more talk.The family did not ask you.Friends didn't give you a ball.

He studied Physical Education, moved to Mar del Plata.The war was a memory that sometimes an uncomfortable groan sprouted.Until 2008 he traveled to the islands, sought the names of his teammates in the cemetery and did not find them.

-That year I went to London with two war veterans for days on posttraumatic stress.And there we said that we did not understand that Argentine soldier plaque only known to God, that we had buried our colleagues.They had put an interpreter, Colonel Geoffrey Cardozo.The last day we went to a pub, and when we left Geoffrey takes an envelope and says: "You will know what to do with him".And he goes.I was all in English.When we returned to Argentina I did it.And when I read it, I wanted to set them all.Because the report showed where the bodies had been found, where each one was buried, and said that the Argentine government had been asked to send a group to recognize those who had not been able to identify Geoffrey.And the government did nothing.

In the report there was a number -16.100.924- that Cardozo had found on the reverse of a medal.Aro understood that it was an identity document.Googleo it and, in effect, it belonged to Gabino Ruíz Díaz, 19 years old, dead in the war.He went to an Anses office, a dependency that pays retirement and pensions, and asked a friend with an illegal favor.

-I said: "I need to know who charges the pension for this soldier".He looked for and said: "A lady named Elma Belazzo and who lives in San Roque, Corrientes".It had to be Gabino's mother.I grabbed the truck and went to San Roque, 1000 kilometers, with these two companions.And we find it.

The mother was diabetic;The father, ill of Alzheimer's, used a wheelchair chewed by the fury of time.

-We ask: "Elma, would you like to know where your son is?".And he replied: "How am I not going to want?".There we said: “The mother wants.Where are the other mothers? ".

Nobody- nor the State, nor the army- knew where they were.So he had to go looking for them.

-But I went to see Luis Fondebrider before.

Luis Fondebrider's office, the president of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (EAAF), seems like a place that someone was taking things little by little.The space is aseptic compared to the one in the old building of the Once neighborhood where the team worked until 2017, when it moved to this site of thick symbolisms.Like the Human Rights Secretariat, the EAAF is on the site of the former Mechanics of the Navy, where a clandestine detention center during the military dictatorship worked.For this group that has existed since 1984 with the aim of applying forensic anthropology to cases of state violence and crimes against humanity, moving here was a paradoxical and strange loop.

"We always said that from the technical, the identification was possible," says Fondebrider..When Julio Aro came to consider if he could do, we said yes.They were tidied graves in a limited place, there were potentially many DNA samples.But no politician wanted to discuss it.

Obstacles had to be saved-linguish relatives, exhuming dead in territory under British domain-but seemed a noble task.To identify.Make the rites of death before the correct cross.Who could oppose that?

The journalist Gabriela Cociffi was, in 2008 director of Gente Magazine.He had covered the war at 23 and, since then, he had never abandoned the subject.Julio Aro contacted her, told her about the Cardozo report, her visit to Gabino's mother, her intention to look for the others.Cociffi said: "Let's do it".They began to travel, on their own, cities and towns.The method was rustic, improper: they arrived, they asked."Is there a family with a fallen soldier?".They found old parents who had rebuilt the death of their children like whom an old gossip was made;or that they kept the hope that they were there, dismembered.Almost everyone said they wanted to know.However, a group categorically opposed the identifications to be carried out: the fathers and mothers of the Fallen family commission.

They said it was a plan of the British to empty the cemetery and take out the Argentine presence of the islands.

They said it was going to be a bone carnival.

For us they were all heroes and we didn't need to know where each one was.

The years passed.Aro and Cociffi were traveling looking for relatives.The commission, every so often, issued communications that said that "the genetic expertise has been rejected by family members, for (...) to jeopardize the permanence of the remains of the heroes in the place where they must remain perpetuity".In 2010, documents were discarded that Héctor Cisneros, the president of the Commission, had been an intelligence agent of the 601 Battalion of the Army during the dictatorship.Cisneros resigned and assumed in his place Delmira Cao, mother of the deceased soldier- not identified- Julio Cao.She, as cisneros, opposed identifications.Aro and Cociffi tried approaches to the presidency of the Nation, occupied, and a commission founded by a military who had been part of the intelligence services.

Things were put in motion by an email.In December 2011, Gabriela Cociffi wrote to the British musician Roger Waters, who prepared a series of recitals in Argentina: "We ask him to help these Malvinas mothers who for more than 30 years have nowhere to leave a prayer or aflower".He sent him without knowing that he ignored where his own father was buried, fallen during World War II.Two days later, Waters replied: “I have a meeting with your president.Tell what you need to ask you ".On March 6, 2012, former Pink Floyd met Cristina Kirchner and asked for unidentified Argentine soldiers.And on April 2 the president announced that he had directed “a letter to the head of the International Red Cross to take the relevant measures and intercede before the United Kingdom to be able to identify the Argentine and even English men who have not been able to be identified,because each one deserves to have their name on a tombstone ".Shortly after, the Red Cross put together a working group formed by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology team, the Ministry of Justice and the Social Development that began traveling through the country looking and interviewing relatives -asked about the physical characteristics of the fallenthat could help identify them-, and taking DNA samples.

Then the real problems began.

Virginia Urquizu is a member of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team and did many interviews with the relatives.

-The first interview we did was terrible.It was with the mother of a fallen who was an only child.We play a bell.A man replied: "I am the son, already bass".We said: "Something weird happens here".The fallen had no brothers.Inside was the mother with other men who appeared as her children.They were ex -combatants who came to press so that the mother did not give the sample.They told us that they were not going to allow that to be done, that we were desecrates of tombs, that it was a handling to bring the remains to the continent.The woman only said: "I'm going to do what my children say".And did not give the sample.

-Hubo families who did not give the sample because the family commission was before and said: "They do not, this is using Kirchnerism politically, they will take out the bodies and they will close the cemetery," says Luis Fondebrider, ".Some human rights organizations, such as the mothers of Plaza de Mayo, had gone to the islands and talked about the fallen as NN.The commission opposes them so.The word "missing" in Argentina refers to the dictatorship, and several of the Malvinas heroes were repressors.It is difficult to process: a hero of the homeland that previously tortured and killed.

Héctor Cisneros, the military and former president of the commission, received the members of the working group and said: “I will not give the sample, I disagree with the work they are going to do, and I will do everything possibleso that it is not done ".

Meanwhile, from a cemetery almost always alone, the dead radiated deaths that were already much longer than their lives.

It is a sunny day and in the Office of the General Prosecutor of the Nation where Carlos Somiglian.However, the window lets a light that gives the set a wide and country air.Somigliana is a lawyer and is part of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology team since 1984.Remember the three years during which the country toured the country interviewing relatives with the happiness of who undertook a trip to a fantastic land.

-He had people who said: "The Malvinas cause, national issue".And we were in the middle of a route without twine for gasoline.But it was beautiful.People's reception was endearing.It was difficult because we had to handle the expectation.One told them that there was a possibility that the Argentine government agreed with the British so that the exhumation work could be done, but that that could be in a year, in ten or never.And at that time, the Family Commission was taxatively and militantly against, saying that this work was going to be a bone carnival.

In 2016, three years after the group began working, and under the government of Mauricio Macri, the agreement between Argentina, Great Britain and the International Red Cross Committee was signed.It was established that it would work with Argentine, English and Spanish experts;that only unidentified tombs would open;that the bodies had to exhumer and be buried the same day (for the fear of the relatives to be removed from the cemetery);that the work would be done in the southern winter of 2017.The agreement was called Humanitarian Project Plan.In October of that year, Delmira Cao left the presidency of the Commission of Family.She, like her predecessors, opposed identifications.But in June 2017 the humanitarian project plan was launched.In the midst of a landscape of violent stoicism, the ICRC created a laboratory distributed with four containers with four containers: office, morgue, bathroom and kitchen, deposit.

-When we saw that Cardozo had put them in two or three bags, that he had written the names of the places where he had found them, we realized that it was going to be very simple, ”says Luis Fondebrider-.Some documents appeared in the interior layers of clothing that Cardozo did not find because he was working in very difficult conditions.One day I was checking a body, I took a document and it was from the brother of María Fernanda Araujo, the president of the commission, who had not wanted to give the sample.

Shortly after, in another body, Mario Cisneros found the document.

-Etor Cisneros' brother, the former president of the commission who had not given the sample either.We could not ensure that they were, but we had to give the documents to the families and ask them again if they wanted to give the sample.

The remains of 122 Argentine soldiers were analyzed, exhumed with 121 graves (in one of the graves there were two bodies), and samples were sent to three laboratories.The first results arrived in December and in three months ninety positive identifications were made.

Elma Pelazzo, the first of the mothers to whom Julio Aro had interviewed, received the notification in his town.With amputated legs because of diabetes he heard, in the school that bears the name of his son, the notification of the wheelchair result: “The physical characteristics (…) are consistent (…) which allows us to conclude that the remainsburied in the aforementioned location correspond to those who in life were Gabino Ruiz Díaz ”.The woman who, accompanied by ex -combatants, had refused to give the sample, agreed to do so years later and received the notification in a geriatric, sick of Alzheimer's.It was positive, but those who read it could not know if I understood what they were saying.The Cisneros family received the visit of Carlos Somigliana who traveled to the province in which they lived, Catamarca, to deliver the Mario Cisneros document.The fallen sisters agreed to give the sample and shortly after they were notified with the exact location of the tomb.

On March 26, 2018, a trip was organized to the islands - co -headed by businessman Eduardo Eurnekian - with the first relatives who participated in the sampling.They arrived at Darwin's military base and were driven to the cemetery.There they descended and walked silently towards the tombstones like a cautious river that returns to a dry channel.Three hours later they returned to the continent.Many had collected tomb stones but forced them to part with security control.The family commission, by then, continued to oppose identifications.

On May 9, 2019, Avenida that goes one block from Raquel Folch's house, in José León Suárez, a suburb of the city of Buenos Aires, is flooded.Raquel Folch waits at the door, on the street that bears the name of his dead brother: Andrés Aníbal Folch soldier.

-Ac is difficult when it rains.

Inside there is a cerúlea light.Carmen and Ana, Raquel sisters, are sitting at a small table.Ana squeezes a plastic folder from which she will take, over hours, photos of her dead brother;Technical chips that certify the identification of her dead brother;letters that she sent from Malvinas her brother dead of her: the evidence that her brother was alive.Raquel and Carmen work by cleaning houses and raised their children - four Carmen, two raquel - alone.Ana stopped working when she married an engineer.

"She is the only one who was lucky," says Raquel, ".None of us did well.

Ana has an acute voice, broken by sobs as wandering that contrast with her martial verbiage.It was the first that, at 13, he migrated to Buenos Aires from the province of Tucumán, tired of that in the sugar mill where they worked they would pay them with vouchers.

-Sa my mother came, Silveria.My dad, Francisco.My little brother.

"They took us to harvest dad, sweet potato," says Raquel, as if he apologized or permission-.My mother had a land where vegetables sown.Had about a hundred chickens.When corn went out, they got off the trees that looked like airplanes.

All that- the river, the harvest, the chickens- ended when they came to Buenos Aires.After a while, they bought land that was a neighborhood.But they had a house, work, they were together.

-He Andrés had to do military service, in 1981-says Raquel-.I hated that, hated the military.

In March 1982, fifteen days before Easter, Andrés Folch left the regiment to visit his family.

-Veine and said: "We pass them together".I thought they were going to unsubscribe.We expect it, but it didn't come.Then Ana and the husband went to see what was happening.And they had already taken it for Malvinas.

"We couldn't or say goodbye," says Ana-.I never told them, but sometimes I think that if we had been in Tucumán, I would not have had to go to Malvinas.I was blame, who brought it here.

Carmen and Raquel look at her without surprise, as if learning that her sister believes he is guilty of that death was another fantastic misfortune of the many that there were.Ana groans with that itinerant roar between suffocation and pain, and draws from the folder the cards that her brother sent from the islands: “Dear parents, I want to tell you a little about how I am having it, with a cold of degrees below zero andLittle food.But we search them with some chickens, chickens and other things that the land gives us ".The folch family knew the end of the war on television, and the return of the soldiers because the voice was run.

"They said that that regiment returned and we went with my husband, my children, my dad, my mother," says Ana-.We were making plans to make a roast.We start asking my brother.We shouted: "Folch, folch!".But they didn't tell us anything.Until an older one approached and said: “Don't look for it.He died in Malvinas ".

At some point, the neighbors made steps so that the street was named after the fallen, and they seemed good to them.In 2003, a soldier who had looked for them for decades found them and, for him, they knew that his brother had died on June 14 in a bombing.And in 2013, Raquel received a call.

-They of human rights to see if DNA wanted to do.I was happy, I told them yes right away.But I hadn't asked them.

"We are not in the commission but we said not," says Ana-.Because it was said that they were going to bring the bodies to the continent.

-But a few years later I saw on TV the Lord who explained how they had done the job and told them: "This is something serious, we have to give the sample," says Carmen, "says Carmen," says.So we went.

"When they told us she was, I didn't stop crying," says Raquel-.Carmen and I went to the trip to Malvinas in March 2018.What he suffered, what he will have suffered.There are no animals, there are no trees.I joined some cemetery pebbles.But the English took me everything when I came back.His childhood was not easy, and he had to suffer so much time in war and stay there.A useless war.

-Did something left out of him?

-What is nothing- says Raquel.

He stands up, enters a piece bathed by agonizing light and looks for something in a stick from which hangs.Return with a Lois Jean Vest, fashionable in the '80s.

"This is the only thing I had left of him," he says, holding the empty vest.

In Buenos Aires an imperial rain falls.In a meeting room of the América Corporation, in the Palermo neighborhood, is Roberto Curilovic.It has that kind of neat that seems to cover habits, behaviors, behaviors.A neat as an opinion.He is a naval pilot, ex -combatant and hero of Malvinas, and when he refers to Eduardo Eurnekian he calls him "Mr. Eurnekian".

"Good afternoon," says Eduardo Eurnekian entering the room.

He is 86 years old, and his corporation manages 50 airports, among other things.Legend tells that Eurnekian and Curilovic are friends and that everything Eurnekian did in the Malvinas cemetery did it for him.But Curilovic entered the company in 2001 to reorganize airspace and Eurnekian entrusted him, in 2005, to take care of the relationship with the Family Commission.It was not a bad calculation: Curilovic is a war hero-in one of his flights, on May 25, 1982, the British ship Atlantic Conveyor sank-and the relatives of the commission feel respect for him.In 2004, Eurnekian remodeled the cemetery, he placed a three -meter white cross and a cenotaph that had to be assembled in Argentina, transfer to Uruguay and take the islands with a Norwegian ship (nothing of Argentine flag enters the islands).As commercial flights to the Falklands are few and very expensive (the equivalent of a Buenos Aires-Madrid passage), Eurnekian organized six family trips since 2006, renting the airplanes.He says that the answer to the question of why this is simple.

-In the year 82 nobody could stop supporting the effort to recover the islands.I don't think the road would have been violence, but it happened.At that time there was an extraordinary patriotic euphoria.But in 2003 I call me the ambassador of England in Argentina and he tells me that family members were making efforts to travel and have a cenotapio, and that nobody paid attention to them.I asked him to have a meeting with the family commission, and I said: "Well, we do the cenotaph.".Believing that then there was a recognition of governments, not to my effort but that of family members.And that didn't happen either.

-Finance these trips seems responsibility of the State, not of an entrepreneur.

-Nopepe.I think different.I don't like the state apathy, but it's what there's.My anger is to think like there was not an entrepreneur who has solidarity with this effort before.All participated in the deed in a very emotional way and then forgotten.

April 15, 2019 at 13.44 A message from María Fernanda Araujo, president of the Commission of Family members arrives: “Hello, I will not be able to go tomorrow, we will have to leave it for next week.Apologies".May 29 at 12.22 Another message arrives: “Today we will not be able to gather.They operated on my foot ".June 12 at 0.13 Another message arrives: “Sorry the time but it is to let you know that tomorrow I am not.We arrange for later.Kisses and apologies ".The next day he attends the phone and explains that the cancellation is because he has to attend an act:

-The commemoration of the battle of Monte Longdon.It is done in Regiment 7 of La Plata.The crosses of the fallen and at 17.45, when the sun falls, the bombings and bullets begin and a soldier puts behind my brother's cross and says "Soldier Araujo, present!".You don't know how nice it is.

María Fernanda Araujo, sister of the soldier Eduardo Araujo, travels every year 60 kilometers from Buenos Aires to Regiment 7 of La Plata, spent the night in the barracks with other relatives of the commission, and the next day he sees the sunset between the rumble of the bombswho mimic those who killed his brother.

-I hate the military.But my brother loved that uniform.Why am I hate it?For two or three idiots who killed people?My brother did military service in 81, and swore to defend his homeland.Dad educated us in which the word is fulfilled.However, when my brother Dad convened: "Let's go to live in Paysandú", in Uruguay, so that I did not have to go to war.And my brother said: "No, you educated us in which the word is fulfilled".And my dad had to put the words in the ass.

María Fernanda was nine years old.When the war ended, it went with his father to look for his brother to the regiment.He made her climb on her shoulders and gave her an order: "Gritá Araujo".They looked for him alive.

-And I shouted."Araujo, Araujo!".And a soldier tells my old man: "He won't come".And he starts crying.My dad returned home, looked at my mother and, knowing that, didn't tell her.My mom was still looking for him everywhere thinking she was lost.At the table there was always an empty dish with Eduardo's photo.Had to be provided with the portrait.If we were going to a restaurant, my old man carried the carrying, lifted it and had to hit the carrier with the cup.My old man died in 2012.They cut off his legs.Everything was sucking and smoking three cigarette packages per day.

María Fernanda married, had children, divorced.On November 30, 2007, Rivotril, Cherry and K-Octhrina, a cockroach poison.The mixture did not kill her but sent her to a psychiatric clinic.Then he worked in a hairdresser, in a toy store, and finally as a secretary in the family commission while Cisneros was president.

-In the commission we opposed one hundred percent to identifications.It's a sad story.Delmira Cao was president, but the head was a war veteran, César Trejo, who seized the institution.What happened is that the Cecim, a center of former silver combatants who wanted identification, began to talk about the fallen, missing, missing.And I said "My brother is not missing from the dictatorship, he died in a war".And César Trejo took advantage and began to put ghosts.He said: “If they do not appear they will make them go through missing;And if they appear they will want to bring the remains ".But one day I asked my mother if she wanted to do it.He told me "I don't need to touch the graves, but if there are other moms who need it, and if they promise me they will leave them where they found it, to do it".Then I called him Claudio Avruj, the Secretary of Human Rights at that time, and said: "Sentame with those who are going to do the job and ask them all the questions".Armed the meeting.They were all.Foreign Ministry, Forensic Anthropology Team.We asked them a thousand questions and everything answered.César Trejo was and when we left he tells me: "We are going for amparo resources, right?".Because we presented amparo resources to prevent identifications.And I say: “You didn't understand anything.You will never understand it, because you came back and my brother did not.So enough, Trejo, we go with identifications.Chau, Skinny ".

After the meeting organized by the Ministry of Human Rights, María Fernanda Araujo, her mother and other relatives of the commission decided to give a blood sample.The shot was made at the commission headquarters, on April 11, 2018.Shortly after she and her mother were cited to receive positive notification.

-If I would have known that this was the end, I wore a bottle of champagne and unfortunate.

-The reasons to oppose were only Trejo's arguments?

-I think the commission was not well seen by Cristina Kirchner's government.They saw us as pro milicals.It is not understood that I get along with the military.

On March 13, 2019, María Fernanda Araujo joined one of relatives' trips to the cemetery, paid by Eurnekian.On March 15, the Commission issued a statement in which it talked about that trip “to be able to honor 22 new fallen that now have a grave located with its name, after almost 37 years after the Gesta of Malvinas ended,” and appreciatedTo those who had done that possible, from the Secretariat of Human Rights to July Aro through the Forensic Anthropology Team and the Red Cross.All who, for years, had been his immense leviathan.In September 2020, the governments of the United Kingdom and Argentina signed an agreement to advance a new stage of the project: identify the bodies deposited in a collective grave.Until October 2020, one hundred fifteen fallen were identified and seven remain unidentified.

In this room, Cristian Panigadi saw, at age 20 and on television, the news that his father, Tulio Panigadi, merchant sailor and captain of the island of the states supply ship, had died.

-I was watching TV and a militant statement says they had sunk my old man's ship.

Panigadi is a doctor, and speaks without resentment although he does not know anything about what happened in the south.

-When the war begins, the ship of my old man, the island of the states, which made the tour between Buenos Aires and the Patagonian area, was under flag and used it to move weapons between the islands.On May 10 the ship was attacked and sank it.A raft with four people came out.My dad, the military captain, the kitchen assistant and the first officer.The officer died when they arrived at the beach.The military captain and the assistant rescued them.But for years I thought that only the kitchen assistant had survived, had no idea that the military captain had also survived.

The versions about how his father died are several: he threw himself into the water confident that he could reach the shore and took the current;There was an argument, someone shot him and fell into the water, alive or dead.

-What happened there? I dont know.In 2000, reading a newspaper, I see an interview with the military captain and say: "Hey, and where did it come from?".I called it.And I didn't ask anything.He is a person who lived a terrible drama.The political moment of war was dire.They used Malvinas as a nationalist cause.The World Cup was played, people went to the square to live Galtieri.The newspapers cheered him.I never moved with heroes or family commissions.The nationalist and messianic speeches do not bank them.The feeling with my old man was that he had gone on a trip.Until at one point it ceased to be like that.And I don't know when that point was.But when they called me to ask me if I was willing to give a DNA sample, I said yes immediately.Although I had no hope, omnipotence has a limit.

As expected, they notified it with an exclusion: a negative result.Even so, on March 13, 2019 he joined the trip of the relatives.As those notified with an exclusion could not carry an companion, alone and without a tomb panigadi went to the cenotaph and sought the name of his father.

-What I felt was anger.I saw the ladies sitting on earth, wearing the crossings with the clothes of the fallen.I thought that even Nazism did this: I have to thank that 40 years after the conflict I could go to the cemetery.

Salado Mercedes is Spanish, is part of the Forensic Anthropology team, and she and Luis Fondebrider were the EAAF experts designated by the Red Cross to work on the islands.The family commission expressed objections to the election of Salado: "It is a Spanish when Argentina has many prestigious forensics, which shows a contempt for our professionals," said César Trejo when he was still part of the commission and demanded that,,If the process went ahead, Héctor Enrique Brunner, former Falklands combatant and forensic doctor who argued that “(…) would not be strange to try to get the cemetery from above, which is the final goal of this” was designated as an expert, which is the final goal of this ”.

-In the whole issue of Malvinas there has been a lot.The idea that the interest of this project was to get the Argentine presence of the islands had been installed.It cost a lot to understand that identification and transfer were not synonymous.

-According to what they found when exhuming, was Cardozo's work good?

-When the thing comes badly, from the beginning you begin to find contradictions between the written record and what comes out on the ground.And we were following the record and what we found was related to what the bag said.I was surprised how neat his job was.

Delmira Cao is 80 years old and the stairs are laboriously upShe and her daughters are women, Graciela and Viviana.Through the window you see, high, the pine that barely appeared from the earth when his son Julio left this house, more than thirty -five years ago.It is one of the survivors of the razed family.First the son died in the war.Then the son of the son died.Then the son left died.The department was part of the steel factory that her husband had mounted, Julio.

-But when he died everything collapsed.I sold the machines and I don't even know what I did with the checks.

Julio, one of his two sons, was a school teacher.On March 30, 1982 he had marched to the Plaza de Mayo to join the claim that the unions made that day.He returned late, the voice spent so much screaming against Galtieri.I was 21 years old, I was married that, by then, she was five months pregnant.

-Two days after that march came and said: "Mom, they are calling Malvinas, I'm going".I said "You can't, you're going to have a daughter!".And he told me "I could not speak to my students of our heroes, by Belgrano and San Martin, if I leave my colleagues to defend the homeland".

Can a 21 -year -old teacher say goodbye with bronze words?Delmira says yes.Against the will of his family, with his pregnant wife, Julio Cao went to war.His mother spent those weeks burning so much to pray.Until the conflict ended.

-They came that the soldiers returned to the barracks, so the woman, eight months pregnant, my brother went to look for him.

But they didn't find it.Some soldiers were speechless to see the pregnant woman who did not know she was a widow.

-Nopeadie said anything.There was a colonel.He asked my brother for the phone and told him to return home, that he was going to have news.And that day he called him and told him that Julio had died.Two days later he came to see me Walter Neira, a former combatant who had been with Julio.And he told me that Julio had died pulverized by a bomb.

And that was what- in thousands of interviews and speeches- Delmira repeated: "My son was pulverized, my son is left with nothing".

-My husband was depressed and in 1990 he died of cancer.Then, in 1996, my son Roberto, from HIV.Before he died he told me: "Veterans are your children, approach them".And the veterans were my children.But my daughters hated that.I said: "Malvinas".And they told me: "Shut up".

-When you were in the commission, you opposed identifications.

-Yes.The commission was hard.But fear was to brought them here.Then, when María Fernanda Araujo came, they turned all.I had no interest because I thought there was nothing on July.

But there was.A while ago, Delmira knew that the version of the death of his son he had believed for more than thirty years was a wrong version.

-A long ago Walter Neira dies.And Esteban Tries, an ex -combatant very friend of mine, on television.In that program he tells that July had been buried by colleagues, which was not sprayed.My daughter Viviana calls Tries and asks if it is true that there are remains of July.And Tries tells him yes.And Viviana tells me: "I want us to get DNA".We gave the sample and in 15 days they gave us the result.Positive.

-Did you know Esteban Tries?

-Lifelong.

-Had he said how his son had died?

-Nopepe querían pasar sobre la historia que había contado Walter Neira.In addition, I have left in thousands of speeches saying that nothing had remained from my son.They didn't want to go against me.

-Did he regret not having given the sample before?

-Yes, me arrepentí.I said that I did the same because my son left nothing left.But it's not the same.With those we had problems it was with Julio Aro and with the Cecim, who said that our children were missing.

-The problem with ring what was it?

-It's more a problem of César Trejo, which is another veteran.A great person, but has his way of thinking.Loves me as if it were the mother.I love me.And I him.

Esteban Tries belongs to a group called Malvinas, Education and Securities, which disseminates the topic in schools.He went to war with 19 years and then sold cars, made clothes, and one day he left everything to focus on "La Gesta".

-I also opposed the identifications because a forensic legist, Brunner, told us that the only way to do them was to bring them to the continent.And relatives said "no" and we align with them.Today the relatives are smiling and grateful.I apologized to Julio Aro, because he about eight years ago came to see me and said: "Esteban, let's do this".And I said: "You are garbage".

Esteban Tries seems the key man in a gear that begins with an ex-combatant- Walter Neira- who tells a mother- the Cao- something he thought he thought, and who continues with that mother making a decision- take on the identifications- based onA wrong fact.

-I found out how Julio died in mid -2017, on the other ex -combatant, Héctor Spesti.Revasti told me that he had heard an ex -combatant tell that he had seen that Julio Cao had been pulverized.Overwrite knew that it was not so, that the expansive wave had killed him but that they had buried him.The ex -combatant who told that was Walter Neira.When Abresti tells me I tell him: "You have to tell Delmira".But he was not encouraged.Then Neira died, and when they invited me to television I told how Julio Cao had died, to honor him.

-When you told it on television, did you not think the family could be watching?

-It's that I had already spoken with Delmira.In intimacy.

-What did he say?

-He was like that, he didn't tell me anything.And for me she is the reference.

César Trejo made military service and was discharged on December 23, 1981, but they rejoined it on April 9, 1982 to send it to war.Talk to motley rhetoric, riding blocks of phrases such as "The Dialectic of the Master and the Slave", "The symbolic production of the elites", "The Popular Field", "The Hybrid War".He explains- giving a wide rodeo that accounts for the work of Rudyard Kipling- the basis of the British military doctrine: to bury their fallen where they have died to sow the message that, if there passed a soldier of his British majesty, he cango back to pass.The conclusion, he says, is evident: the purpose of identifications is to prepare a massive transfer of the bodies to the continent and erase the Argentine presence of the islands.

-The report of Lieutenant Colonel Cardozo is a disaster, "he says-.It is a true despoliveness.It shows that there is a hurry.

-The Argentine team of Forensic Anthropology points out that the way in which the bodies preserved facilitated the work.

-If one gives credit to them.I do not give you credit.How can it have appeared identity cards, notebooks, letters, with very little deterioration?Was that documentation there or was drawn and returned?

-What would be the benefit of having extracted it and returning it now?

-It's an unknown.And where does the initiative of the expertise arise?Three Argentine ex -combatants are received in London by an English officer who gives them an envelope and entrusts them with identification.

-The deliver an envelope, but where does the data of identification entrust them from?

-It's obvious.We knew from the beginning that the goal was to move the bodies.

-The identification would that alleged objective change?They could transfer, identified or not.

-Nopepe, en principio, a ver… Primero está la procedencia de la iniciativa, que es inglesa.

-Doesn't you think the encounter between Cardozo and Julio Aro has been casual?

-Nopepe.Think that is imbecility.In addition, the concept of identity in Argentina has a burden that comes from the disappeared.In the Argentine fallen there are no identity problems.We talk about location.Malvinas' dead cannot be approved with the state terrorism and disappeared situation.The commission at no time expressed opposition to the identi ... to the location of the tomb.

-He had people from the commission who called the relatives so they did not show samples.

-Okay, but the argument is spurious.It was claimed that there was no talk of identification.And that an expert participated in the work.A doctor, forensic lawyer and former Falklands fighter, Enrique Brunner.

-Brunner said that the only way this job could be done was drawing the island bodies.It wasn't like that.

He said once that.But...Let's see ... that does not cancel its legal and medical capacity in forensic science.

-The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team is a world reference.

-Madonna is world reference.Does not sing well or dance well.

It is Friday, April 26, 2019.It rains early.At 10 in the morning, Mabel Godoy opens the door of a building in the center of Lomas de Zamora, Bonaerense Conurbano.

"The world is coming down," he says, entering his department where a dog caniche bricks like a hysterized toy-.Sitate while we wait for Nora.

Nora is Nora Rodríguez, sister of Víctor Rodríguez.He was four years old when his brother went to war, four when he was killed, four when his mother, Benigna, began to look for him madly, and four when Mabel Godoy, Victor's girlfriend, accompanied Benign to look for him everywhere.The bell sounds shortly after.Nora is in the hall, soaked, 42 years that seem less.

"With Nora we didn't see each other for more than twenty years," says Mabel.

Although both live in Lomas de Zamora, they had last seen in 1995, in Fidel's funeral, a Nora brother who died of leukemia.Benigna, Nora's mother, died in 2004.Fermín, the father, in 2017.By then, Nora was married, she had a daughter.

"And a year ago," says Mabel, serving coffee, "I enter a toy store with my grandson.I see her and say: "Disculp me, do we know each other?".And she tells me: "Yes, I am Nora Rodríguez".

Mabel and Victor met when she had 15 on a religious pilgrimage and became boyfriends.He went to war when she was 16.At the end of the conflict, without news from his son, Benigna began to look for him in the barracks, in the hospitals.

"I accompanied her," says Mabel, ".On TV they said: "Family members must attend Campo de Mayo".We were and there were rows of people.Whole days.I left the job and sold the music team to be able to accompany Benigna.Months passed and ...

He stops and looks at Nora de Doslayo.

-I'm never told you.They call your mother one day and tell her that your brother is alive at the Río Santiago hospital in La Plata.And it goes, and it was another Victor Rodríguez.

-And what they said?–Tera Nora.

-"We are wrong".But después pasó otra cosa peor.They cited her from the Ministry of Defense.We are both.They are calling her.Goes up.LOW AT 15 MINUTES.Super happy.Radiant.I ask "What did they say?".And he tells me: “Do not lose hope, that there are prisoners who are in Malvinas, who took them to England.They asked me who I came with, I told them you are and told me what you climb ”.I go up.A giant office, a type with a military uniform.I was with a file that said "Víctor Rodríguez", with red letters.I already knew that when they appeared with red letters, they were deceased.Ask me how old I am.I say: "sixteen for seventeen".And he tells me: "Ah, you're a girl and you're big".He grabs the file and tells me: "This boy, Víctor Rodríguez, was a great boy, but the world is full of big boys".I looked at him.“This boy died in Monte Longdon on June 10.I told your mother -in -law that there were prisoners, because you saw how mothers are.If you want, he contailed ".I got up and said: "They are a bitch children".I hit half a turn and left.And on the walk I made crossing the hall to meet benign, I had to decide what I was saying.And I see her with a smile from ear to ear.He asks me: “And?What did they tell you?".And I said: "The same as you, benign".I couldn't even look at her.

-Your mother thought I was a prisoner?

-Yes, mucho tiempo –dice Nora, secándose los ojos con una servilleta de papel.

-And who told him he was dead?

-I calculate that it was to wait and never arrive.

When they met again in that toy store, Mabel and Nora had no contact with the family commission or knew about the identifications.One day, by chance, Mabel found on Facebook an ex -combatant who had been a friend of Victor.

-He told me they were working on the identifications, and I told Nora.

-I wanted to do it right away.Immediately.

-Did they know that the commission was opposed?

"Oh, no, I didn't know," says Nora, strangely, "and why?

"I didn't know either," says Mabel.

-Nopepe tenía ni idea.I gave the sample in July 2018.And in November they called me because the results were.Then I call her to Mabel and say: "Can you go with me?".And it was positive.They gave us a folder.A medallite.Mabel told me: "It's his, it's a medallite that I gave him".Then we went with Mabel to Malvinas.I brought some pebbles.Everyone took them out, but I got three pebbles in the average and I passed them.

That is left.White stones.

They gave him a comb.A silver crucifix.A folder with a technical report, images of a coffin, of a denture, photos with epigraphs: "conduction of the coffin to reinhumation", "coffin arranged in the grave".Before that, there was a short life.

-I always together, accumulate.Sometimes I think it was because when I was a girl I had nothing.

Adriana Rodríguez Guerrero, 57, mother of four children, speaks with the shy, submissive and repentant whisper with which believers confess.He is in the room of his house in Lomas de Zamora.In the dining room there is a showcase on which a soccer shirt is restrained, a soccer shirt in which the word "lobito" is read.At the foot, a photo of Gustavo Rodríguez, Adriana's brother, wearing that shirt.

"I found out that Lobito said in the club," says Adriana, traveling the plot of the tablecloth with a tired violet nails.

They lived in the countryside, in the province of Santiago del Estero.When she had four and he three, her grandparents went to look for them - the mother did not take care of them - and took them to Lomas de Zamora where they raised in houses of relatives who, at 14, sent her to work as a domestic employee.

-My brother began working on what he got.I slept where the night grabbed him.

In 1981, at 19, Adriana married the man who is still her husband, and her brother was summoned to military service.

-I was still doing military service and told us that they sent him to Malvinas.We went to see it.We sat in the grass, we talked.

They said goodbye without tragedy.Then there were letters, some parcels and, finally, silence.Gustavo was dead for five days- June 11 to 16- without his sister knowing.

-The war called and nobody knew how to tell you anything.We looked at the news looking for the face.In the end, someone went to warn my grandparents' house and sent some neighbors to let me know.But me enteré cómo había muerto veinticinco años después, en 2007.An ex -combatant looked for me for years and told me.My brother was in the non -commissioned officer.I had just entered to make the guard.And a plane passes and a bomb falls.

Over more than three decades, Adriana did not receive official notification of her brother's death or data about how she had occurred;She was not contacted by officials from any government or by the army that led him to war.One day from 2008, an ex -combatant came home.

-It's Julio Aro and asked me if I wanted to know where my brother was, but I told him no.Years later they called me human rights, and I said: "No, this is all a lie, all politics".

But in 2018 he knew- by Facebook- that two companions of his brother had been identified.

-And I said: "I can't be so selfish".So I contacted human rights.

Shortly after they quoted it for notification.She was accompanied by some of her children, who had not even met the dead uncle, and listened to the reading of the report that said her brother was in the number nineteen.

-I thought that in these 37 years I had already cried, I had already made the duel.And no.It is seen that I still expected it.I can't understand that they haven't told us that Geoffrey Cardozo had done that job.And I thank God because he gave him a holy burial.I said: "Lord, you didn't abandon him at any time".I went to family members this year.And when I saw that place ... what I thought was: "Did Gustavo died for this shit?".

He has few photos of his brother, but he has letters that he sent from the islands: “Today the truth was something very nice here where we are.President Galtieri came.General Lami Dozo, all important people.ATC also came and (...) Gómez Fuentes filmed us, do you know how nice that was?(...) Do you know, Adriana?I on television ".Gómez Fuentes led the ATC news, the public channel.Lami Dozo was the Commander of the Air Force.

-For him were important people.But para mí esa gente fue basura.With so little it was formed.

In 1981, when Adriana married, the VHS already existed but the prices of video recordings were very high so, to have at least one audio record, her wedding was recorded in two TDK cassettes.One day, while his brother was doing military service and war was not even a distant possibility, he went to visit him to the barracks.

-My husband had given me a recorder, and in one of the cassettes there was a little free tape, so that day I went to the regiment and I recorded it.

In that talk Gustavo is 18 years old, he is completethat do not allow them to keep the food that visits take.He does not know that months later a bomb will exterminate him at the South Atlantic, that his sister will spend thirty -five years without knowing where he is buried, twenty -five without knowing how he died.

-I had a few years listened to that recording again.But es muy triste.I always think that if he had been with us everything would have been different.He would have nephews, we would be together.Instead, I had nothing left.I had the cards.I had the perfume I used.

-What perfume was it?

As if waking up from a trance, he raises his eyes off the tablecloth and says:

-Wild Country, from Avon.That perfume does not go anymore.