Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi was present in the Buenos Aires City Legislature on Thursday for a tribute to four Uruguayan political activists who were kidnapped and murdered 50 years ago in Argentina as part of Operation Condor.
Those who were honored were former lawmakers Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz, and Tupamaros militants Rosario Barredo and William Whitelaw.
Michelini, also a founder of the governing Frente Grande (Broad Front) coalition, and Gutiérrez Ruiz, a member of the National Party and former lower house president, were living in exile in Buenos Aires due to Uruguay’s civic-military dictatorship.
They were kidnapped on May 18, 1976, along with Barredo and Whitelaw, who were also escaping the dictatorship.
The four of them were illegally detained in a clandestine detention center in the Argentine capital.
