This Monday afternoon, the association of Mothers and Relatives of Disappeared Detainees met with the president of the Republic, Yamandu Orsiin the Executive Tower and, among different topics, they once again asked the president to order the military commanders to provide information. Furthermore, they reported that a officer who remains at large He completed a procedure at a Miami consulate without repercussions.
After the meeting, the representative of the group, Ignacio Errandoneaspoke with the media and revealed that, after reiterating to the president the request for “give the order” the military to speak, the president told them that he was “studying” the possibility, although “there was no compromise”.
“We also ask that, as the Executive Branch, you ask all citizens that whoever has information about the whereabouts of our relatives present it and deliver it“, said.
After this, the group presented a case where a soldier “fugitive from Uruguayan Justice who is wanted by Interpol” submitted a procedure “faith of life” at the Miami consulate and from the US office they provided him with the document “without calling Interpol as they had the order from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs”.
“All citizens, when we are abroad, must present proof of life every X amount of time to collect the retirement. When you are required by Interpol and Justice, the order is that officials must immediately call Interpol, and that was not done“he noted.
“It cannot happen that fugitives from Justice, since they are retired military personnel and generally have a very good retirement, live abroad and all of us pay their pension so that they remain fugitives. That seems pretty unfair to me.“he added.
Upon learning of the fact, commented Errandonea, the president “understood perfectly” the complaint and “committed” with the association “transmit” the fact to the Minister of Foreign Affairs to “Investigate what had happened”.
Outside of these two issues, the community expressed its annoyance at the “slow way” in which work is being done to search for the missing.
“There is no new information, access to the files is being worked on, but progress is being made slowly and we see that this is being done due to bureaucratic obstacles and that is not only regrettable, but inadmissible, because a year of government has passed and The agreements to be able to enter a file are not yet in place…”, critical.
On this topic, the president “he promised to search from the Executive Tower and expedite all the procedures that were bureaucratic, that depended on the Executive Branch”Errandonea assured.
