Eduardo Tavani, director of the Space for Memory Institute in the former site of the Navy Mechanics’ School (ESMA), has resigned his post in the middle of the controversy provoked by a barbecue held in the notorious former detention centre.
The official presented his resignation today due to «growing differences» with the organisation’s board of directors, although in a text uploaded to Facebook he made no mention of the event held by government and human rights representatives last Saturday.
«I base this decision on vast, growing differences that with respect to the politics of the institution have appeared with some members of this body, expressed in a series of proyects formulated by this adminstration, that I find unacceptable,» Tavani affirmed, explaining his decision to leave the Institute.
«In recent times we have had to face many difficulties that we could not have imagined and that slowed down or halted progress in the direction we had planned. Our efforts to follow the desired path were numerous and varied.»
Tavani’s decision comes just one day after the story broke that Human Rights subsecretary Carlos Pisano had held a barbecue on the grounds of the ESMA, used as a detention centre during the last military dictatorship of 1976-83.
Source: Buenos Aires Herald