Memories of Buenos Aires by Ilan Stavans

Author:Ilan Stavans
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781613763292
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
Published: 2013-09-15T00:00:00+00:00

Posadas Hospital

On March 29, 1976, five days after the coup, a hundred soldiers burst into the Posadas Hospital and arrested over sixty people, many of whom were briefly detained and disappeared in the facilities of Coordinación Federal (see p. 17). Twelve people working in the Posadas Hospital were kidnapped in a series of operations in November of that year. These included Dr. Jorge Roitman, an infectious disease specialist from the polyclinic who was taken from his nearby home, hooded, and tortured in front of his wife and daughters.

Two years later, in May 1978, a boycott organized in France targeted the Twelfth Annual Cancer Congress that was due to take place in Buenos Aires in October of that year. By that time the practices of state terrorism in Argentina were known around the world. The Congress, like the even more notorious Football World Cup in 1978, was organized in order to improve Argentina’s international image. It was condemned by thousands of professionals in the international scientific community. Professor León Schwarzenberg wrote a letter to forty thousand doctors denouncing torture and asking them to join the boycott. The letter, which also condemned the doctors who were participating in the torture sessions, was published in Le Monde on May 3, 1978.

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