Militancy Evidence on these cases of complicity case management-militarEl The first shipyard facilities and metallurgical facility in Tigre established during the 1920's, although the company was incorporated as a corporation under the name Astarsa \u200b\u200bin years' 40, with the majority shareholders at the Company Importer and Exporter of Patagonia, family owned Braun Menéndez, and Estrabou y Cia. According to available estimates, the company employed in the mid 70's about 1,500 workers, of whom about 800 were metalworkers, and 700 were naval. [1
] Although wages in the company were relatively high, given that most skilled workers performed tasks, the work was carried out in appalling sanitary conditions: "The incessant hammering on sheet metal and air noise populated deaf. The toxic fumes from paints and welding material produced various degrees of lung disease complexity. The cases of sterility and accidents with autogenous welds were frequent. An officer coppersmith, for example, working wearing heavy leather clothing for protection from sparks in environments over 50 degrees of heat inside the watertight compartments of the ships which are too small for gas focus with ease. "[
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Between 1971 and 1973, a group of young workers who entered the work at the plant began to question the very poor working conditions and poor union representation offered by the Union of Workers in Shipbuilding (SOIN). Formed a group, which was submitted to election in late 1972 under the name Brown List. Although in the first instance the actions of the group was limited, and several members of the list were dismissed by the company, a series of accidents (which were not such, but were explained by poor working conditions and the absence total of adequate medical care) that culminated in the deaths of several workers, led to a growing movement by all workers, culminating in a shot from the establishment in May 1973, coinciding with the assumption of government by Héctor Campora.
Between 1973 and 1975, the group that even took the name of Jose Maria Alessio (The name of one of the workers killed in an "accident" at the factory) still stand for election as Brown List, won an impressive progress in the representation of workers, many union gains, among which included the creation of Commission Health and Safety Workers, connected with the Institute of Occupational Medicine and the National Technological University, and the establishment of close relations with other workers in other factories in the north. As a result of their actions, and his membership in the JTP (Peronist Youth Worker) in 1975 several of the activists were kidnapped by paramilitary groups and were savagely tortured, although the intense mobilization of workers in factories and neighboring Tigre secured their release. In January 1976 continued abductions, and in February found dead three militants, totally disfigured.
The day of the coup, on March 24, 1976, military forces commanded by Lieutenant Colonel Molinari, who served in the Engineering School of Campo de Mayo, sealed off the entrance to Astarsa, Mestrina and Forte, tankers war, assault vehicles and helicopters in an operation that lasted until the next day. With the consent of the company, who willingly allowed their presence and assisted in their identification, arrested about 60 workers, who led the Police 1 st of Tigre. According to the testimonies of workers who survived, the military had precise instructions, the first of which was to dismantle the body of delegates and the internal committee. In addition to those killed or kidnapped, it is estimated that 16 of the workers and delegates are still missing until now.
Rampoldi Jorge's case illustrates the close relations between companies, sectors of the unionism and the military bureaucracy. Rampoldi, member of the CNU (National University Concentration, right-wing university organization) was employed in an administrative charge of the office Astarsa \u200b\u200bstaff, to which then joined his role as legal advisor to the SOIN (union of naval bureaucratic trend), and finally participating in the intervention of the union. In trials carried out in Italy regarding disappearances in Argentina during the military dictatorship involved him as one of those responsible for the disappearance and murder of two workers of Astarsa, Martino Mastinú, called "Tano" by their peers and his brother Mario Marras, they called "the Tanito." [3
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Moreover, a group of workers Astarsa \u200b\u200bsurvivors, upon learning in 2003 of the appointment of Rampoldi (Who formerly had served as deputy Carlos Ruckauf work in the Province of Buenos Aires) as National Director of Migration, made a presentation to the Human Rights Commission of the National Congress, which led to the convening of hearings in July and August 2003. Both the presentation and the audience it was reported that both Rampoldi like other members of the union's intervention had been identified as members of groups Astarsa \u200b\u200bkidnapped workers and their families. In particular, he was accused of intervening in the kidnapping of Aldo Ramírez worker, who was taken to a concentration camp located in Campo de Mayo, where he was savagely tortured and then exposed to other hostages. [4
] also noted that the March 16, 1976, after the wife of one of the workers was kidnapped, a group of workers went to the personnel office to notify Astarsa \u200b\u200bwhat happened Rampoldi and require their cooperation to locate it. According to testimony, Rampoldi replied: "You do not exist, do not realize? Now when we want the cagamos dead. "
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1] The primary source used to reconstruct the Astarsa \u200b\u200bcase is the investigation by the historian Federico Lorenz (part of which is contained in his article" The naval workers Tigre. Union membership in a context of confrontation "military", "Journal Armed Struggle No. 2. Buenos Aires: March to May 2005). Another important source in this case is the oral history program carried out by Memoria Abierta on Astarsa \u200b\u200brepression.
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2 ] Lorenz (2005), 74.
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