By four votes to one, the Board of Directors of the INDDHH admitted the Center for Human Rights Studies of Uruguay to its registry of social organizations, according to El Observador.
The only re-elected director of the INDDHH, Wilder Tayler, (who voted against the acceptance of the organization) said that “the co-optation of entities that tolerate the denial of human rights should not be allowed”, and stressed that “there are limits that should not be passed”.
Voting in favor: the president of the Board of Directors, Marcos Israel; and the directors: Bernardo Legnani, Carmen Rodríguez and María Jimena Fernández Bonelli.
History
The Center for Human Rights Studies of Uruguay is chaired by Sergio Hugo Molaguero Brescia, and the vice-presidency is occupied by Graciela Rompani (widow of Jorge Pacheco Areco, president of the Republic between December 6, 1967 and March 1, 1972) .
Molaguero, son of the owner of the former “Seral” shoe factory, was kidnapped by the leftist group OPR33 in 1972.
He is a former businessman in the footwear industry and former leader of the Colorado Party, he was proposed to join the Human Rights Institution by the deputy of the Colorado Party Omar Estévez who in May 2021, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, was denounced by the bench of deputies of the Broad Front for “alleged criminal acts linked to the health of workers of his company and damage to public health.”
After a series of inspections carried out by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security (MTSS) in the citrus company owned by Estévez, the Secretary of State finally decided to file the case.
To integrate the INDDHH, he had the support of the Center for Human Rights Studies of Uruguay, the Center for Retired Officers of the Armed Forces, the Uruguayan Institute of Culture and the Fundación Rioplatense de Estudios.
