Tribute to Cubans murdered during Argentina's dictatorship

Buenos Aires, Aug. 9 (RHC) Cuban workers and diplomats in Argentina will pay tribute today to their compatriots Jesús Cejas and Crescencio Galañena, assassinated 48 years ago during the last civil-military dictatorship in that country (1976-1983).

Kidnapped by a regime task force a few steps from the Cuban Embassy in this capital, and later murdered in the clandestine detention and torture center Automotores Orletti, one of several that functioned as places of extermination in this country during that period.

Nearly four decades later, in June 2012, Galañena's remains were found in a 200-liter metal tank filled with cement in an abandoned lot in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Virreyes, along with those of his companion a year later.

In April 2022, the Argentine judiciary ordered the delivery of four tanks containing the skeletal remains of victims of the dictatorial regime to the National Memory Archive.

Previously, specialists from the National Institute of Industrial Technology and the Forensic Anthropology Team worked on their study, analysis and identification.

They were able to identify four people, including the Cuban diplomats.

Recently, the tanks in which the remains of Cejas and Galañena were found were donated to Cuba and placed in the Memorial de la Denuncia in Havana.

Last November, the Human Rights Secretariat installed a plaque at the Cuban Embassy to honor the victims of the Argentine dictatorship and as part of the marking of sites to denounce state terrorism.