Télam delivered unpublished material from the Falklands War to the National Archive of Memory

the national news agency Telam made this Monday the delivery of the “Malvinas Collection 40 years” for the collection of National Memory Archive (ANM)at the headquarters of the former ESMAa set of 991 digitized photographsidentified from the survey and digitization processes that are currently being carried out to value as documentary heritage.

For their part, the ANM authorities returned to the Agency original documentation from its collection belonging to the Telam Fundobtained in the photographic coverage that the agency made on official activities during the last civic-military dictatorship, on mobilizations of human rights movements and material from special envoys to the Malvinas Islands during the 1982 war, in many cases still unpublished.

“This work is to maintain history, which unfortunately is tragic, but it is good that we have been able to recover it,” said the Secretary of Human Rights, Horacio Pietragalla Cortileading the act.

The official also argued that “Télam, as a news agency, will be able to spread this material more, so that it is known to all citizens”.

? “The National Archive of Memory offers its experience to be able to save material that builds the collective memory of our society” said Human Rights Secretary Horacio Pietragalla Corti (@pietragallahora), in the act of exchanging archive material with Télam pic.twitter.com/cyIaF4gvcj

—Telam Agency (@TelamAgency) October 3, 2022

“We think of the National Archive of Memory as an archive with open doors, and for the documentation to be disseminated. The only way to fight against hate speech and that story that does not want to be told is to open the archive, share this information with society,” said the national official who was accompanied by the president of Télam, Bernarda Llorente; of the president of the National Archive of Memory (ANM), Marcelo Castilloor, and the ANM Audiovisual Funds Management coordinator, Natalia Magrin.

Llorente considered that the material returned to the agency, which recorded events from 1976 to 1989, is “inspiring because we recover not only the journalistic heritage of the agency but also the memory of Argentina because Télam is a fundamental part of that history as a national news agency, in its 77-year history”.

Teams from both institutions have been working together since 2011 when they signed an agreement so that the ANM can process, recover and digitize this documentation belonging to the agency linked to these human rights issues and State actions.

“They return the material to us, where an important part is Malvinas, and we we were able to retrieve over 900 photos from that period for you to complete in the Archive. These photos were not known by censorship. Malvinas was a fragmented story told in partsLlorente said.

? “The National Archive of Memory offers its experience to be able to save material that builds the collective memory of our society” said Human Rights Secretary Horacio Pietragalla Corti (@pietragallahora), in the act of exchanging archive material with Télam pic.twitter.com/cyIaF4gvcj

—Telam Agency (@TelamAgency) October 3, 2022

Then he added that “the dictatorship made us believe that there was little material, but when you start looking you see that it exists, the issue is to be able to rebuild it and give it another meaning for new generations,” said the president of the Télam Agency.

Llorente added that “recovering the files is important at the citizen level because it is the cmemory constructionbut also from awareness, to see what happened to us so as not to repeat those things. think and rethink ourselves from the information“, he concluded.

Magrin stressed that this exchange of historical documentation from the news agency “has historical, political, social and cultural value.”

“There are many photographs of the struggle of the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. There is a lot of never-before-seen material about the Falklands War, images that give us faces so we can think about the life stories of those people, they show us the identity of those who were to war,” he added.

The coordinator, who had among her tasks to visualize and catalog all the material, highlighted that “many of these photographs were not known, that is why we must highlight the value of the work of the photographers who left those visual memories inscribed that this Monday allow us to recover those collective struggles,” he said, and highlighted the value of shared work and the historical ties between both public institutions.