El veinte de mayo/May 20th
Photo from diariossobrediarios.com.ar. Click HERE . Feliz cumpleaños a ... Zelmar Michelini (May 20 1924-May 20 1976) A Uruguayan journalist and politician who spoke out about the human rights abuses during " Operation Condor " in South America, he was kidnapped (in front of two of his children), tortured and killed in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1976. He was in Argentina, exiled from his home country of Uruguay, due to the 1973 coup d'etat that put in place a civilian-military dictatorship with Juan María Bordaberry at its head. In 2010 Bordaberry was convicted of human rights abuses, including the assassination of Michelini, and sentenced to 30 years (read more HERE ). In 2016, on the 40th anniversary of Michelini's death, his ten children stood at his gravesite and read a statement, saying that their father always fought for "libertad, democracia, derechos humanos e igualdad social" (liberty, democracy, human rights, and social equality) (read the ...