Sports and Memory

The program “Sports and Memory” is currently being developed by the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory and the Families of the Detained and Disappeared for Political Reasons. The proposal calls on sports institutions to take a guided tour of the country’s most emblematic former Clandestine Center of Detention, Torture and Extermination established within the Navy School of Mechanics during the last military-civic dictatorship. Today, ESMA Museum and Site of Memory features a museographic display that connects visitors with Argentine State Terrorism from 1976 to 1983. The program includes a visit to the headquarters of the Families organization and a guided tour of the exhibition «Sports and Human Rights». This exhibition focuses on athletes who were kidnapped and tortured during the aforementioned period and describes key moments in Argentine sports history and their historical and political context.

We believe it is of vital importance to work on the issues of Memory, Truth and Justice in all areas of civic life, mainly with our youths and teenagers as a way to reaffirm the construction of an increasingly democratic and engaged society.