mid-January 2022, an effort that will go on until June 2023, when the final deliberation will take place at the committee meeting.
Presently, the application has been a very valuable tool for the Museum, since it has involved the implementation of a network of connections and dialogues with different sectors and actors from around the world that broaden and enrich their visions on the institution. Human Rights Organizations, survivors, scholars, workers from other museums and sites, networks of cities, national, regional and international parliaments, transfeminist organizations and social movements, to name just a few of those sectors that support us.
As you can see, the candidacy represents for us a political, social and cultural challenge that expresses a profound agreement between all Argentines, represented by the National State. But, at the same time, we believe that it will not only protect the ESMA space and other spaces of memory in the country and the region –and therefore our democracies– but ultimately it will be a significant contribution to all of Humanity.
* Mayki Gorosito is the Executive Director of the ESMA Museum and Site of Memory - Former Center of Detention, Torture and Extermination.