2023-08-09 16:26:18
In the last few hours, the organization Plenary Memory and Justice announced that it will make a Escrache to Senator Guido Manini Ríos, from the Cabildo Abierto partyand the former President of the Republic and historical leader of the Colorado Party, Julio María Sanguinetti, for considering them “torturers and accomplices” of human rights violations.
In a statement sent by the agency, the “files” of the two right-wing politicians were also sent. Regarding Sanguinetti, who was called “the godfather of the unpunished, father of our miseries”They expressed: “He was the first president of a democracy that served to strengthen that social economic model of inequality, repression and looting until today.”
They also accuse him of “falsifying history” and to maintain ties with the repressors of the dictatorship after this dark event in Uruguayan history came to an end. “He supported the military commanders when they refused to respond to the summons of the Judiciary for the atrocities of State terrorism and in 1986 he articulated and promoted the impunity law, which he defended tooth and nail, censoring the opposition itself”adds Plenary Memory and Justice.
They assure that Manini Ríos would have enriched himself while he was in military office
Regarding the far-right lobbyist leader, they remarked that his grandfather was “Treasury Minister of the Gabriel Terra dictatorship” and that “he entered the Military Lyceum in 1972, at the age of 14, according to his own words, for his ‘desire to be a participant in the war’ that the Armed Forces waged against the revolutionary movements”.
“As is common in military commanders, as his military career progressed, so did his wealth.: apartment on Rambla Gandhi in Punta Carretas, office in Plaza Cagancha, house at stop 10 of the Brava in Punta del Este, a US$1 million corporation (2008 value), a condominium apartment near Miami, Florida, property that he later transfers to a shell company also based in the US. In addition to the family farm, bank accounts, retirement as a military man… then the salaries of senator and minister will come, “says the” file “.
“Manini Ríos has been a key player in the repressive apparatus of the State that they are executors of the doctrine of national security and of the interests that keep our compañeros and compañeras kidnapped,” concludes the statement from the human rights organization.
The event is convened on August 11 at 6:00 p.m. in the Memory Former Prisoners of the Punta Carretas Jail, in front of what is now Punta Carretas Shopping.
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