The report conducted by Rodríguez Larreta was crucial to identify the repression policies planned by the different Southern Cone dictatorships, known as Plan Condor. He also started an international campaign aiming at denouncing the situation.

The exhibit shows the files of the journalist, who was arrested and tortured by the Uruguayan and Argentinian military forces while he was looking for his son, who was also jailed by the dictatorship, and is based on the Argentinian detention center known as “Automotores Orletti”, an emblematic place due to the violence suffered by the people who were held there.

Last month, the Uruguayan Press Association was the location chosen by the organizers of the exhibit, among them the son of the journalist, to explain which were the main concepts behind it.

Renowned writer Mauricio Rosencof, Director of Culture for Montevideo Municipality spoke in the event. He highlighted the need to strengthen memory and how the ancient Gaul people carried a stone around their necks containing a important memory for them. Rosencof explained that when they were defeated, their enemies broke the stone which had the memory, because they believed people were not really dead until their memory was destroyed.