Pozo de Banfield

Demonstration in the Pozo of Banfield by the 39º anniversary of the Night of the Pencils.

The Pozo de Banfield, dependency of the Brigade of Investigations of Banfield (dependent of the Regiment of Infantry Mechanised 3 of the Argentinian Army), was an Argentinian clandestine detention center that worked between November 1974 and October 1978, in the frame of the military dictatorship that ruled the country.[1][2][3][4] This detention center had the particularity to start working as such during the constitutional government of Isabel Perón, before the 1976 coup d'état.[2][4]

The three-storey building was situated in the intersection of the Siciliano Street and Vernet Street in the city of Banfield in Greater Buenos Aires. The office of the commander, a torture chamber and other facilities were located n the ground floor. On the first floor there were cells, offices, dining and casino staff, kitchens and bathrooms, while the second contained more cells and a bathroom.[5]

A total of 309 people, including Uruguayans, Paraguayans and Chileans were detained in the center. 97 were victims of forced disappearance and 5 were freed and subsequently killed.[2] Among the prisoners there were four women who gave birth, but whose children remain unidentified.[3] It is considered that one of the main functions of this center was to illegally house women during the last months of pregnancy and separate newborns from their mothers.[6] Also on this site were housed the platenses students abducted during the Night of the Pencils in 1976.[7]

After the return to democracy in 1983, the centre turned into a department of the Buenos Aires Provincial Police. In 2006, after the request of social organisations, the space was given to the area of Human Rights to build a Museum of the Memory.[8][9]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Recordarán en el Pozo de Banfield a los estudiantes desaparecidos durante La Noche de los Lápices
  2. 1 2 3 Circuito Camps; Pozo de Banfield.
  3. 1 2 ¿Qué fue el Pozo de Banfield?
  4. 1 2 G.F (12 September 2010). "El Pozo de Banfield se convertirá en un Espacio de Memoria y Justicia". Diario Tiempo Argentino. Retrieved 10 March 2011.
  5. ↑ Informe de la Comisión Nacional sobre la desaparición de personas
  6. ↑ Funcionarios y legisladores recorrieron el "Pozo de Banfield"
  7. ↑ El Pozo de Banfield
  8. ↑ El ex Pozo de Banfield
  9. ↑ Eduardo Luis Duhalde recorrió las instalaciones del "Pozo de Banfield"

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