Mexico City, (EFE) .- The Organization Article 19 presented ‘Resistance Archives’, a project with more than 50,000 historical documents on the repression of the State during the ‘Dirty War’, as a “resistance testimony” before the crisis of disappearances that the country is going through.
The collection, composed of archives from 1965 to 1990, will be preserved at the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center in the Mexican capital, for physical consultation, in addition to integrating into a digital repository.
The regional director of article 19, Leopoldo Maldonado, highlighted the importance of protecting this documentation, as a “resistance testimony”, in front “a state that still does not recognize these atrocities well.”
During these three decades there was a stage called ‘Dirty War’ in Mexico, in which the State violated political dissidents and opponents in different entities of the country.
Maldonado recapitulated that despite the creation by presidential decree of a Truth Commission, which in 2024 documented 8,594 victims of serious human rights violations between 1965 and 1990, with state agents as responsible, “the State does not accuse of receipt.”
“As long as there is no recognition of the atrocity and recognition of the institutional and individual responsibility of those who participated in that counterinsurgency policy, and the institutional responsibility, to a large extent, (the panorama) olive green painting (color of the army), and that is where they do not want to run these governments,” said Maldonado.
He also pointed out that by persisting “this commitment to oblivion and impunity”, there is a “thread of continuity, oblivion, denial and impunity of the present.”
“But this remains an act of resistance, while the State does not publicly recognize what has happened,” he said.
Among the donors of the documents, Armando Rentería, former military of the ‘Communist League September 23’ and political express, recalled that at that time of the ‘dirty war’ “conserving documents of this nature” meant persecution, torture and often disappearance.
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“(They were) death files, because it was enough with only one of them to torture or disappear,” Rentería described.
The event also inaugurated the exhibition ‘Dress the repression’, available until June 23, with historical documents, photographs, sound recordings and clothing of the time, among other elements, in charge of the university center for the dignity and justice Francisco Suárez, of the Iteso University.
Luis Enrique González-Araiza, director of the center, highlighted this “titanic” effort of the recovery of collective memory to “honor those who organized through the decades to resist” before an authoritarian regime that violently pursued political dissidents.
“Bringing these events to memory, becomes valid today more than ever in a state that denies the crisis in the disappearance of people,” he said.
In Mexico, there are more than 127,000 missing people, according to figures from the National Registry of Missing and not located (RNPDNO) that counted the disappearances since the 1950s.
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