Investigation in Uruguay of kidnapping and murder of journalists wife
With the exclusion of the case of María Claudia García Irureta Goyena from the Amnesty Law for military involved in human rights violations from 1973 to 1985, Uruguayan President Tabaré Vázquez reopened the case that, besides finding the granddaughter of Juan Gelman, did not meet success during the administration of his predecessor, Jorge Batlle.
Vázquez signed a resolution (June 24) that allowed for the investigation of the kidnapping and murder of the daughter-in-law of Gelman, Argentinean poet residing in Mexico. It will be up to the Uruguayan Courts to determine if they will bring to trial those who are responsible or not.
29 de octubre de 2012 - 20:00
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Marcelo Gelman and his wife, María Claudia García Irureta Goyena, were kidnapped in Buenos Aires in 1976. His body was found days later in a 200-liter container filled with cement and sand (they killed him by firing a close-range gunshot into his head). She, pregnant, was brought to a secret detention center in Montevideo; she gave birth to María Macarena Gelman García and nothing else is known.
With this step taken, Vázquez followed through with Gelmans request that his daughter-in-laws case not fall under the amnesty laws passed shortly after the dictatorship, and a promise he made during the electoral campaign with his Argentinean colleague, Néstor Kirchner, to solve this matter.
Gelman met his granddaughter in March 2000 in Montevideo thanks to an investigation ordered by President Batlle. Curiously, later the investigation went nowhere: the Uruguayan government prohibited excavations from taking place at an Army base in Montevideo, where according to forensic experts and anthropologists believe the remains of María Claudia García Irureta Goyena would be located.
The works began almost coinciding with the measure signed by Vázquez.
