This is about José Enrique Michelena Bastarrica, who was born in Montevideo on May 9, 1949, and is listed as missing in Buenos Aires on June 14, 1977.
The mothers and relatives of the missing, as they always do, have presented Michelena as a "social fighter," an idealistic young man who was disappeared at the age of 28 for his noble and altruistic ideas. All false.
Moreover, they imply that the disappearance was the responsibility of agents of the Uruguayan state, which is also false, as Michelena disappeared in Buenos Aires. The responsibility lies with the Argentine authorities of 1977.
The Human Rights Secretariat for Recent History itself indicates that the "missing" José Enrique Michelena Bastarrica was part of the GAU (Unified Action Groups).
The GAU
It was a Marxist terrorist gang that engaged in various crimes in the style of the Tupamaro national liberation movement but on a smaller scale.
The GAU operated from the late 1960s to the early 70s. They were a kind of urban guerrilla that carried out bank robberies and infiltrated private estates and arms thefts.
This gang of outlaws planted a bomb at the Faculty of Engineering and Surveying on October 27, 1973. One of those who participated in the bombing was José Enrique Michelena himself.
