Three years after his death, Juan Carlos Dante Gullo was honored this Tuesday with the inauguration of a mural in the square that bears the name of his motherÁngela María Aieta de Gullo, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of San Cristóbal.
In order to remember him, a mural made by the National Mosaic groupinspired by a photo of the leader, whose history was always associated with identity and militancy in the Peronist Youth.
“Canca” for his friends, was born on June 8, 1947 in a working and Peronist home and was. He always lived in the same house in Bajo Flores, except that they interrupted the eight years and eight months in which he was a political prisoner.
In that 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. He had returned to the country to confront the dictatorship as part of what was 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 1960s, he participated in the founding of the Peronist Youth (JP), and later 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 he held an elective position, entering as a national deputy in the elections in which Cristina Fernández de Kirchner triumphed and in 2011 he was elected Buenos Aires deputy.
