He worked at night until late, with the radio on so that the neighbours didn’t hear the sound of the machines. He had a writing machine, “one of those Underwoods”, a relic that he had inhereted from his grandmother, and a mimeograph with which he printed the statements. “El Negro”, how he was known in “la orga”, was one of the people in charge of the press. Until a comrade got me a place in Avellaneda.” I spent many days sleeping on the street, in empty lots, construction works, in the back of some churches.
The militants in charge of the area had fallen during a commando hit in March 1978 and, to be safe, we picked everything up and left. But their main concern was to survive.įrancisco Rojas remembers that those months “were hard”: “I lived in José C. A lot of them, with a certain pride, attempted to maintain their militancy with conviction and an unbreakable compromise with the “fallen”. And in Argentina hundreds of militants had been left loose, “untied”, with no structure, no money, no resources, no refuge, practically adrift. The leadership of Montoneros had long ago opted for exile. The majority had lost “cadres”, and with them their ability to act and respond. Since the extermination plan applied by the Military Junta, trade-unions, political, social, and student organizations had been decimated. It had been over two years since the military coup of the 24th of March 1976, and the regime leaded by Jorge Rafael Videla, Emilio Massera and Orlando Agosti had destroyed everything and left a trail of deaths and disappearances on the streets. A resistance with what little could be done. A resistance with pamphlets, stickers and graffiti.
A resistance maybe not as cinematographic or spectacular as the one of bombs or the bazooka shots that impacted on the commissaries and military barracks. A silent resistance without great actions and with no guns. With death on their track, during those days in 1978, there were men and women who took part on the resistance against the dictatorship.
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