Operation Massacre: After 70 Years the Justice Acknowledged the Responsibility of the State in the Shootings of José León Suárez
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“Memory bursts until it wins, he finds a reveco to get out,” Attorney General Alberto Palacio said in the closing statement of the trial for the truth for the shootings that took place in a garbage dump by José León Suárez—in the northwest periphery of Buenos Aires—in the early morning of June 10, 1956. The families of the 12 shot had to wait 70 years to hear, this Monday, a judicial verdict: they were “crimes against humanity” perpetrated by th…
Originally published on June 23, 2026 Editor Canal Abierto In a historic ruling, the Federal Justice of San Martín held the Argentine State responsible for the planning and execution of the 1956 shootings, ordering different actions of reparation and memory for the victims. The de facto president of the dictatorship, Pedro Eugenio Aramburu, the admiral and vice president Isaac Francisco Rojas, Lieutenant Colonel Desiderio Fernández Suárez, unde…
The Federal Justice of San Martín acknowledged that the shootings of José León Suárez on June 9, 1956 were the responsibility of the State. During the trial, the court recognized that Carlos Lizaso, Nicolás Carranza, Francisco Garibotti, Vicente Rodríguez and Mario Brión. Meanwhile, Juan Carlos Livraga, Julio Troxler, Reinaldo Benavidez, Rogelio Díaz, Horacio Di Chiano, Norberto Gavino and Miguel Ángel Giunta were arrested through an illegal sea…
Federal Justice took a step of high historical impact by recognizing as a crime against humanity the Massacre of José León Suárez, which occurred in June 1956, one of the darkest episodes of state violence in Argentina of the twentieth century. The decision, read by the federal judge of San Martín, Alicia Vence, after three days of hearings, reopens in judicial and symbolic key a fact that...
In a trial for truth, Judge Alicia Vence found proven the kidnapping of 12 people on the night of June 9, 1956, the murder of 5 of them, and the attempted murder of 7 others, who survived. She ordered reparations and declared the dictators Pedro Eugenio Aramburu and Isaac Rojas, as well as the police chiefs, responsible. The hatred of Peronism began with the bombing of Plaza de Mayo, the overthrow of the constitutional government, and then the b…
The Federal Justice of San Martín recognized as crimes against humanity the shootings of José León Suárez of 1956, the events that Rodolfo Walsh reconstructed in Operation Massacre, and attributed responsibility to the Argentine State for the planning and execution of the operation. The sentence was handed down in the framework of file 41,041 and represents a historical reparation for the families of the victims, almost 70 years after the events…
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