Iris Avellaneda: "I was proud to have participated in the Trial of the Juntas" 40 years after the beginning of the trial against the leaders of the dictatorship

April 22 marks the 40th anniversary of the beginning of the hearings of the Military Boards Trial. A privileged witness of many of the hearings, the MU journalist and co-author of the book Nothing but the truth reviews scenes, revelations and the context of an unprecedented experience in the world in which a massive crime committed by the State was judged. Witnesses, surprises, the location of madness and sanity. The projection of that story thi…

She was kidnapped on April 15, 1976 with her fifteen-year-old son, Floreal "Negrito" Avellaneda. She was released only in 1978. Three days later she learned that the boy had appeared dead on the shores of Uruguay. "It was an extermination, and I will continue to fight," she says in dialogue with Page/12.

Iris Pereyra de Avellaneda's testimony lasted nearly half an hour, but it was one of the most harrowing heard at the Trial of the Juntas hearings. The woman, who claimed to be a communist militant, recounted how on April 15, 1976, a gang arrived at her home looking for her husband. When they couldn't find him, they kidnapped her and her fifteen-year-old son, Floreal "Negrito" Avellaneda. The last thing she heard from her son were his screams und…