Uruguayan Travels from Southern Brazil to Montevideo to March in Search of Answers about Dictatorship Crimes
Key takeaways
- He is still searching for answers about the whereabouts of his brother, Gustavo Goycoechea Camacho, who disappeared in Buenos Aires in December 1977.
- Gustavo and Graciela Basualdo were taken by armed men to clandestine detention centers; their two-year-old son, Nicolás Goycoechea, was left with a neighbor.
- Since 1977, with that doubt, that hope and that desire to know the truth about what happened," Horácio said while boarding a bus for his third march alongside his wife, Ana Maria.
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He is still searching for answers about the whereabouts of his brother, Gustavo Goycoechea Camacho, who disappeared in Buenos Aires in December 1977.
Gustavo and Graciela Basualdo were taken by armed men to clandestine detention centers; their two-year-old son, Nicolás Goycoechea, was left with a neighbor. The operation is attributed to Operation Condor, the repressive cooperation plan among South American dictatorships.
"We want to know what happened. I want to know where his remains are. I cannot abandon this. Since 1977, with that doubt, that hope and that desire to know the truth about what happened," Horácio said while boarding a bus for his third march alongside his wife, Ana Maria.