A new edition of the Arturo Jauretche Prize for Culture was held today at the Museo Malvinas e Islas del Atlántico Sur, on the premises of the former ESMA in the city of Buenos Aires, where figures from journalism, politics and art were awarded in recognition for his contribution “to national and popular thought”.
The winners highlighted the “revolutionary ideas” of the national thinker Arturo Jauretche, recalled the recent death of the last president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association, Hebe de Bonafini, and highlighted the importance of “winning the elections” next year.
The award is promoted by the “Dr. Arturo Jauretche” Higher Institute, located in the Merlo district of Buenos Aires, and the 19th edition began at 2:00 pm in the Orlando Gustavo Pascua auditorium of the Malvinas Museum.
The winners were Carlos Ulanovsky in the career category, Susana Sanz (work in defense of Human Rights), Cynthia García (journalistic work), the Veteranos Unidos de Merlo group (militant work), Guillermo Fernández (musical and interpretive work), Javier Vicente (teaching), Noemí Brenta (investigative work), Horacio del Prado (radio work), Fabián Felman (defense of trade union rights).
For her part, the actress Graciela Dufau (awarded for her artistic work) was also distinguished but could not participate in the event due to “a personal problem”, as confirmed to Télam by the organizers of the event.
The journalist and one of the creators of the Communication Sciences (UBA) program, Carlos Ulanovsky, when he went up on stage, reflected on what Jauretche would have thought about the award: “Don’t believe it, kid,” he joked.
Along these lines, he imagined that if Jauretche “were here, I would be grateful to him for how much his books taught me and how much his revolutionary ideas clarified for me.”
In dialogue with Télam, he remarked that the author was “absolutely ahead of his time” and stressed “that in his works all the themes are impressively current.”
In turn, the Peronist activist and director of Gender and Diversity for Radio and Television Argentina (RTA), Susana Sanz, highlighted that from her role as a labor lawyer and her work in the area of children, she worked to “build a society with greater equality always within the national and popular movement for the liberation of our country”.
“Let’s put all the forces we have to win the elections,” he urged.
Sanz also referred to her feminist militancy and stated that “as Peronist women, many of us have been feminists and have fought to achieve the place that women should have in society.”
In statements to this agency, he stressed that the defense of Human Rights “is a fight incorporated into all my struggles” and highlighted Hebe de Bonafini as “a symbol, who, like so many other anonymous fighters, have empowered this country with their convictions. “.
“We are very affected by the mourning that we are doing for the death of Hebe,” said the journalist Cynthia García.
García, on the other hand, affirmed that in order to win the 2023 elections “you have to have a lot of courage, militancy and communication responsibility” and warned that Argentina is going through a moment where there is “a fight for the construction of meaning”.
The person in charge of opening the event was the director of the Malvinas Museum, Edgardo Esteban, who highlighted that since its inauguration in 2015 during the administration of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, “this place has changed the paradigm of what the Malvinas is.”
“Malvinas has to be the rescue of the collective, we all agree that the Malvinas are Argentine,” he said.
Meanwhile, in dialogue with Télam, he highlighted Jauretche’s “important reference” for the Malvinas cause “on the issue of imperialism and the interference of the British in this country”, and highlighted the delivery of one of the awards for the Veterans group United States of Merlo 40 years after the war.
From the stage, the members of this group affirmed that “it fills us with joy that they do not reward us for having been led by genocidal dictators to a war, but for what we did after hell.”
In his turn, the singer Guillermo Fernández confided that “thanks to tango” he witnessed a lunch at the age of 16 with former president Juan Domingo Perón, who, he said, ended up generating “a crush” on him despite his ideas closest to the left at the time.
Among those present were the president of the Télam news agency, Bernarda Llorente, and Arturo Jauretche’s nephew, Osvaldo Jauretche.
The event was headed by the director of the “Dr. Arturo Jauretche” Higher Institute, Marco Aurelio Roselli, and from the stage the organizers highlighted that the awards are intended to “pay a tribute of admiration and recognition to the men and women of our country who were not satisfied with being mere reproducers of the ideas of the ruling classes”.
During the award ceremony, the artist Bruno Arias dedicated the chacarera “Hermanos de Malvinas” to the veterans present, and later, Guillermo Fernández sang a tango.
After the event, many of those present went to Plaza de Mayo to participate in the tribute to Hebe de Bonafini.
