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Eduardo Rómulo Barrionuevo. Anonymous photographer Olga Norma País Espinosa. Anonymous photographer As conclusion The research on Afro-Argentines are expanding its interest toward the present, because usually it reached the mid or, at most, the late twentieth century. Also, the recent history must be addressed, since the different stages of the country have been covered to a greater or lesser extent. In 2012 the Association Misibamba donated to the Institute Space for Memory my report on the Mirta Esther Montero´s case, jointly with the case of her mother, Orfilia Rivero, for preservation, study and unrestricted dissemination (Cirio, 2012). The detected cases can be matched to the socio-historical structure of the AfroArgentine on two issues: the permanent state of conceptual construction and the partial, incomplete and ruinous sources. As the identity is a constant process of selfacknowledge, the descendants of Africans who are recognized today as AfroArgentine, Afro descent or Afro-Argentine from the colonial trunk encrypted themselves in such a way after an arduous and silent brooding, the victims of state terrorism did the same. It's very hard to detect and then to document these cases for keeping some consistency by ordering what happened: there are intermingled memories, identities camouflaged under convenient nicknames that eat away certain whether this is the same person that rot away the certitude of being talking about the same person. There is also a shortage of sources, because they were destroyed by the victims and / or victimizers, in both cases to protect themselves, and a deep silence among survivors and witnesses because of fear, distrust or irreproachable and genuine desire to forget. In these experiences of sordid reality, we write with what we can get, but we write. 75