This Tuesday, May 3, marks three years since the death of Juan Carlos DanteGulloowner of a life story always associated with identity and militancy in the Peronist Youth, axis of the act-homage in the Ángela María Aieta de Gullo square (Eduardo Jenner 955), in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Cristobal, this same Tuesday to 6:30 p.m.
In order to remember him, a mural will be inaugurated by the group National Mosaic. In turn, there are two projects both in the Buenos Aires Legislature and in the local Justicialist Party (PJ) to honor the historic militant.
“Canca” for his friends, was born on June 8, 1947 in a working and Peronist home. He always lived in the same house in Bajo Flores, except that the eight years and eight months in which he was a political prisoner.
in the same house and While he was in prison, his mother, Ángela María Aieta de Gullo, was kidnapped.an obligatory reference in the history of the Argentine and international movement for Human Rights.
In 1979, his younger brother, Jorge Salvador Gullo, was also kidnapped., who had returned to the country to confront the dictatorship in the framework of what is known as the “Counteroffensive.” The two were seen at the ESMA and remain missing.
The “Canca” spent his youth during what is known as the Peronist Resistance (1955-1973). He was part of the Pharmacy Workers Union, framed in the CGT of the Argentines.
At the end of the 60’s participated in the founding of the Peronist Youth (JP), and subsequently joined the Revolutionary Tendency. He was also general secretary of the JP Regional 1, which included the City of Buenos Aires.
Juan Domingo Perón chose him as youth representative and President Héctor J. Cámpora summoned him as advisor on the matter.
In the 1980s, Gullo faced the reorganization of the JP and the PJ, and according to his convictions, in the following decade he confronted Menemism as well as accompanied the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in the protests of December 2001. in 2007 hold an elective position, entering as a national deputy in the elections in which he won Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
In 2011 Gullo was elected deputy from Buenos Aires, and once again, he maintained his convictions against the policies of the incoming macrista government.
