The complaint about the disappearance or death of their children, in some cases, literally took their lives! Because impunity kills! Those people who marched for years in democracy through the different streets of our country dedicated their time and energy to making visible the cruelty, asking that it never happen again, just as our white scarf fighters always did: Grandmothers, Mothers.
The current moment is a severe blow for the families of victims of state repression. For this reason, 16 years after the forced disappearance of Luciano, they joined the initiative of the LGBTIQNB+ collective to set limits on the advances against their most basic rights. This context forces us to meet and create spaces that discuss the current situation, remembering the democratic process with a sensitive intersection of class and gender.
Women - grandmothers, mothers, sisters - who fought and continue to fight against state repression had a tortuous path. They believe and reaffirm the conviction that this political-media alliance carries remnants of the last Argentine military dictatorship and weakens democracy.
"We are neither surprised nor astonished by the measures taken by the national government, which is hunger-inducing and repressive, that has been fed by hatred, invisibility, and silencing realities that needed to be reversed, denounced, and condemned with names and surnames," they expressed. They pointed out the impunity of figures such as Daniel Scioli and Fernando Espinoza, who have faced no consequences since the moment of Luciano's disappearance.
On Sunday, February 2, a call was made to visit the Espacio para la Memoria Luciano Arruga on the 16th anniversary of his disappearance and to join the Antirepressive Assembly to continue organizing against the fascist government. It was emphasized that Luciano, as a young man, dark-skinned, of the neighborhood, was a victim of patriarchy and the racism of uniformed individuals who exploit the youth from the neighborhoods.
January 31 marked 16 years since the kidnapping, torture, murder, and forced disappearance of Luciano by the Bonaerense Police. "The state made him disappear; we found him fighting," they tirelessly repeat from the Relatives and Friends of Luciano Arruga. Another one in a context of rights reduction and the right's advance against the achievements acquired by the popular struggles of the country.
