Surviving the Dirty War: Argentinian Torture Survivor Patricia Isasa
7:30 pm Patricia Isasa
8:30 pm Film screening of Patricia’s documentary El Cerco,
The Brecht Forum
451 West St. (Bt Bank & Bethune)
(212) 242- 4201
(1,2,3 A,C,E to 14th st. 14A,11,20 buses to Abingdon Square/12th St; 8 bus to Christopher St.; L to 8th Ave @14th st; F,V to 14th St. B,D to W. 4th)
Suggested donation: $6/$10/$15
At the time of her kidnapping in July of 1976, architect Patricia Indiana Isasa was 16 years old. She was her class delegate to the high-school Students Union in the province of Santa Fe in Argentina. She was taken by a commando group of the state police and was “disappeared” (held clandestinely) for three months. She was then taken to a military barracks, where she was held prisoner without trial or due process for two years and two months.In 1997 Patricia initiated an investigation into her kidnappers’ identities, still unknown to her. Thanks to her relentless research, today eight people are in jail and awaiting trial, including an ex-federal judge, an ex-assistant secretary for security of Santa Fe, and several ex-policemen (one of them a graduate of the School of the Americas). All of them had been previously detained when the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón requested their extradition to Spain. Then-President Fernando De La Rúa denied the extradition request; now they are awaiting trial in Argentina. Patricia just spoke last week at the annual vigil to close the S.O.A. in Ft. Benning, Georgia.
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