Argentina Pays Tribute to Cuban Diplomats Missing Here

Cuban diplomats in Argentina and Argentine relatives of missing people commemorated here the 40th anniversary of the disappearance in Buenos Aires of two diplomats from the Caribbean nation during the last military dictatorship (1976-1983). The simple tribute took place yesterday night at Automotores Orletti, a workshop located in the neighborhood of Flores. This place was used as clandestine center for detention, torture and extermination of the Operation Condor in Argentina.

The kidnappers took there the remains of Jesus Cejas and Crescencio Galañena, kidnapped on August 9, 1976 by an operation group. They were subsequently tortured and killed in the framework of the repressive coordination of the dictatorships in the Southern Cone.

The murderers placed the bodies of the two Cuban diplomats in 200kg metal drums and they were threw in a garbage dump near San Fernando, province of Buenos Aires

After some years of searching by Cuban and Argentine experts, their remains were found and returned to their relatives, Galañena on November 1, 2012 and Cejas on July 1, 2013.

The oppressors involved in these disappearance as that of other Argentine people were also tried and sentenced.

Counselor of the Cuban embassy, Carlos Suanes, gave an account of the wave of terrorism sponsored by the then U.S. government and executed by CIA agents took place during 1976 against Cuban official and commercial premises in several parts of the world.

Before the screening of the documentary 'Más allá del dolor' by Mundo Latino, about the process of investigation and search for the remains of the diplomats until their discovery, specialist Carlos Somigliana, of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, recalled some phase of the investigation work.