Representatives of human rights organizations and political leaders from La Plata They repudiated the opening of a new cultural center in La Plata, which they point out as having a neo-Nazi tendency. They accuse them of spreading denial ideas, hatred and racism and being behind different attacks and vandalizations.
Its about “Cultural Center” Kyle Rittenhouse (CCKR), located at 5 between 64 and 65From where In addition to wearing neo-Nazi badges, the crimes committed by the last dictatorship are denied and gender policies and diversity in the city are attacked. His opening and action motivated the unanimous vote of a repudiation decree project in the Deliberative Council of La Plata.
The space claims the figure of Kyle Rittenhousea young man from Illinois, United States, who cWith a semi-automatic rifle he murdered two people in the context of the protests against police brutality in 2020. Thus, from their social networks, in public appearances or through videos and texts, they refer to March 24 as “the Day of Struggle Against Subversion” or affirm through graffiti in the city that the victims of the genocide were not 30,000.
At the same time, in many of their communications they refer to the detained-disappeared persons as “terrorists”, refloat in their networks the theory of the “two demons”, “the dirty war” and “the subversive threat” and they also share materials claiming military repressors. Likewise, they damaged and painted murals from La Plata for Memory, Truth and Justice with expressions like “Death” on the faces of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo or wrote “Communist lefties” on the mural-tribute to the historic leader of the Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR) Otto Vargas.
At the same time, the CCKR presents itself in its networks as “a cultural-political space of an anti-communist and anti-gender ideology nature” and claims the fight against what they call a “femi-Marxist coalition”. Also, the entity refers to an alleged crisis of “Western and Christian values”, that points to the visibility of minorities and the progress in human rights policies as the culprits of the decline of civilization.
Against this background, the president of the Provincial Commission for Memory (CPM) and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Adolfo Perez Esquivel told the Telam agency that the statements of the members of the cultural center “are reprehensible from every point of view” and affirmed that “they have no historical memory”: “It is pretending to ignore what the Argentine people have experienced. It is denial. I am a survivor of the horror and I cannot be called a guerrilla. There was a guerrilla, which should be treated under current laws and not what the dictatorship did, with the kidnapping and disappearance of people and babies. They do not have the values in relation to what the people have experienced, “he considered, while stressing that” this does not affect the memory and experiences of a people who work to recover human rights and democracy. “
For its part, the Undersecretary of Human Rights of Buenos Aires, Matías MorenoI affirm that “these are expressions that arise from the enabling speeches that reached their peak during the management of the Government of Cambiemos that since his assumption of power he tried to dismantle the entire struggle of the Argentine people for Memory, Truth and Justice”. In this sense, the official recalled that “they tried to run the March 24 holiday; they questioned the 30,000 disappeared; They wanted to reinstate the theory of the two demons and sought to benefit the condemned genocide with the famous 2×1”.
Later, Silvina Arias, from CHILDREN assured that “in La Plata, the city where the Mothers began to walk, one of the cities with the highest number of missing persons in the country, we cannot allow denialism and hate speech and practices to flourish”, and stressed: “From HIJOS La Plata we repudiate any negationist expression, and we regret that the media echo these positions that are far from sustaining democratic values.”
In that tone, councilman of the Front of All (FdT) Guillermo “Nano” Caraauthor of a project repudiating the actions of the CCKR, said that “the use of the name of a murderer for a cultural space is worrying, claiming insignia and historical processes that have left irreparable traces for our people, such as the last civic-military dictatorship” . “The members of this space promote and carry out systematic practices of harassment, aggression and harassment of various political spaces in the city. This can be seen on their social networks: they boast of having vandalized Peronist premises,” he concluded.
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Strong repudiation of a cultural center in La Plata which they accuse of being “neo-Nazi”