In a statement released on Sunday (14) by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Brazilian government thanked the efforts of the Argentina justice for the identification of Brazilian pianist Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Júnior, missing after a show in Buenos Aires in March 1976.
The disappearance of the musician happened a few days before the military coup in Argentina. Cerqueira Júnior was in presentation with Vinícius de Moraes, Toquinho and other Brazilians.
After the performance, the musician disappeared when he left the hotel where he was staying.
Check out the full note:
“The Brazilian government thanks for the work of Argentina justice, which, on 9/13, informed the Brazilian embassy in Buenos Aires to have identified the fingerprints of the celebrated Brazilian musician Francisco Tenório Cerqueira Júnior, missing after a concert in Buenos Aires on March 18, 1976, days before the military coup in that country. Other musicians. After the group’s performance, Tenório left the hotel where the musicians were staying, and was never found.
The Brazilian government greets the efforts of justice and the prosecution of crimes against Argentine humanity that resulted in the advance of this case. This is another example of the importance of the performance of those organs for the memory, truth and justice, inalienable right of the victims, the family members of those who suffered the violence of exceptional regimes and also from Argentina, Brazil and other Latin American countries that were under the yoke of military dictatorships in the last century. “
The information of the identification of Cerqueira Júnior was released this Saturday (13) clarifying a mystery of almost 50 years. The clarification was made by the Special Commission on Political Dead and Missing (CEMDP).
According to information from the Argentine team of Forensic Anthropology (EAAF), Francisco Tenório was shot dead and his body buried without identification in a common ditch on the outskirts of the capital.
