ABSTRACT
The Dirty War, the author as the military called the repression in Argentina followed a coup dtat in 1976, which ushered in a period of State terrorism against political dissidents. Memory Signs visitors encounter in the park condense the story of the Dirty War into a powerful pictorial narrative. The photographs of the Desaparecidos that some Mothers carry transfix the author's attention. Arm in arm, wearing their white head scarves, the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo slowly walk around Argentina's central square. The Mothers were incensed that official inquiries about the fate of their missing sons and daughters were met with a mixture of silence, lies and subterfuge. The victims are not at ESMA, they located at the Parque de la Memoria. Many prisoners were housed in Capucha that the Navy Officers came up with a diabolically ingenious way of housing so many bodies in the relatively small attic.
