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Juárez (45), Buenos Aires, August 6, 2013.
Written sources: Dandan, 2013a and b. See
C1 (Nephew), C2 (Nephew), F3 (Younger
sister).
Being a nurse in Buenos Aires Province,
she was arrested at home (410 Brazil 9th A,
San Telmo) while caring the children of her
sister Alicia, who had been arrested. There
was no other reason than the cruelty of the
military, who were pursuing his brother
Quique Juarez.
F5. Romulo Eduardo Barrionuevo, alias
The Black Dakar. Buenos Aires, January
13, 1948 - April 5, 1978. CONADEP file:
460. Oral sources: TC 182. Interview with
his daughter Thelma Paola Barrionuevo
(38), Buenos Aires, August 13, 2013.
Written sources: None. See A2 (Brother),
C3 (Daughter).
He lived at Village 1-11-14 lived in Flores
neighborhood, worked as a bricklayer and
joined Montoneros. He served as secretary
of the basic unit Little School of
Bethlehem, concealed in a church run by
the father Carlos Mugica. His wife, Dori
Matilde Amador, was the recording
secretary. She vociferously foiled an
attempt of kidnapping and was helped by
neighbors. The Black Dakar ended up being
betrayed by Fidel Oviedo (a.k.a. Roquis or
Roquino), who boasted about being his
loyal fellow. On the night of April 5, 1978,
heavily armed civilian forces kidnapped
him at a coworker´s place and the next
morning he was killed during a simulated
action in the Almagro neighborhood. Per
death certificate, he had "bullet wounds in
the skull, thorax and abdomen." Some
remains were presented as his and
recognized by the family, but the justice
system is still classifying the case as
confrontation with the police, not as
exercise of state terrorism, which is the
claim of his relatives. The cause is still
open in CONADEP and the Ministry of
Justice and Human Rights (No. 157,298 /
06).
G. Murder
G1. Nilda Noemi Elias. Santa Fe, January
16, 1947 – April 11, 1975. Oral sources: TC
SF 7. Interview with his mother Otilia
Elijah Acuna (91), Santa Fe, May 14, 2013.
Written sources: None.
She lived in Santa Rosa de Lima, a Santa

Fe suburb with large Afro population, and
was a parochial teacher. She helped in tasks
such as installing running water and
asphalting the streets. Her activism
encompassed the Peronist Youth, the
Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR), the
Peronist Village Movement (MVP) and
Montoneros. She was married to Luis Silva
and had three children: Marcelo, Valeria
Mariana and Nicolas Ernesto. The couple
created a neighborhood cooperative for
making bricks and collaborated with the
parish publication El Dominguero. Both
migrated to Buenos Aires and left their
children with Nilda's mother, Otilia Elijah
Acuna. In 1975, she returned to celebrate
the birthday of the firstborn. On April 11,
he was killed in her mother's house by a
group of security forces headed by Colonel
Raimundo Rolón. For that reason, Otilia
joined Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. She
learned to read at age 80 and run at home an
adult school named after her daughter. It´s
said that Nilda appeared, a little girl, in the
movie Tire dié (1069), filmed by Fernando
Birri in her neighborhood, and later in the
short film The House Next Door, in which
an unidentified filmmaker from Santa Fe
deals with the case.
Overview
This body of 19 Afro-Argentine victims of
state terrorism enables for making some
preliminary assessment, setting general
parameters and shared issues, and analyzing
to what extent being African descent had an
impact, at least indirectly, since it wasn´t
the persecutory motive in any case.
However, the anonymous 1973 shootout
against the Religious Institute of High
Culture (Buenos Aires) could be read as an
act of intimidation after Carmen Platero and
his sister wrote the play Calunga Andumba.
According to the testimony of the former:
"After many years, I'd say yesterday, just
for symbolically telling you something, I
came to the conclusion that Susana and me
did with our theater play a revolutionar