The methods of the Uruguayan left to impose their narrative with public money

Uruguay has a state agency specifically aimed at "investigating, promoting, and guaranteeing 'memory, truth, and justice'." In August 2013, under the administration of the late ex-terrorist José Mujica, Presidential Resolution No. 463/013 was issued, which gave rise to what today exists as the Secretariat of Human Rights for Recent Past (SDHPR), which is under the Presidency of the Republic.

Under this new Broad Front government, Yamandú Orsi appointed Alejandra Casablanca as the director of the secretariat, who has been in charge of the general direction of the communication base committee of the Montevideo City Hall, TV Ciudad, since 2020.

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On May 20, the Presidency released a video, narrated by Casablanca and created with high-quality images that, coincidentally, belong to TV Ciudad, which stated: From the Secretariat of Human Rights for Recent Past, we commit to building a state policy of memory.

Indoctrination factories

In its Programmatic Bases 2025-2030, the Broad Front proposes:

Include in the educational programs at all levels, courses on the recent past as well as studies and projects on human rights, building guarantees of non-repetition and memory in both educational and territorial communities of each locality, social and cultural group.

The unilateral version of state terrorism will be reinforced at all levels of public education.

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On May 21, the SDHPR presented its five-year plan alongside authorities from the Ministry of the Interior, Ministry of Defense, and the faculties of Humanities and Communication. Casablanca announced the reactivation of agreements between institutions for the digitization of historical archives, funded by the state.

The implication is clear: the academic apparatus aligns with the Executive in building an increasingly hegemonic memory.

More budget for the business of the plucked daisy

Casablanca mentioned one of the 63 priorities for governing —presented by Alejandro Sánchez and Fernando Pereira on April 29— that will be funded with the national budget:

"Exhaust all instances for the search for the truth of the detained disappeared."

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It is no surprise that the SDHPR responds to the demands of certain civil societies like Mothers and Relatives, Crysol (former political prisoners), or the Jacarandá Collective. This time, Casablanca expressed it openly:

In these two months, we have worked on a plan that was nourished by more than fifty meetings with civil society, with the Academy, and with each of the people who, so far, have been putting a daisy to keep walking

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15 consecutive years in government and now they're back

The Broad Front returns to power and, with it, hypocrisy resurfaces. Its first priority action: "Continue the search for the remains of detained disappeared persons".

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The question is inevitable: why didn't they do it during their 15 uninterrupted years in power? Why didn't they turn over the land of all the battalions until they found the last bone? Why don't they do it now?

The answer is evident: the narrative also functions as a political, symbolic, and economic resource, that is, a murky business funded by all Uruguayans.

To continue bleeding the working people, the other priority action of the government will be: "Review the Reparation Laws for Victims of the Illegitimate Action of the State" such as Law No. 18.596, No. 18.033, and Law No. 19.449.

National holiday, gentlemen.

Priority action number 11 of the Bases proposes the greatest dystopia of all:

"Promote in the population the exercise of memory about the recent past of our country, through the declaration of May 20 as the Day of Memory, a non-working national holiday for both public and private activity."

It is likely that next May 20 the leftists will impose the Day of Memory as a national holiday, as it coincides with the anniversary of the assassination of Zelmar Michelini and Héctor Gutiérrez Ruiz in 1976, but also with the birth of the ex-terrorist José Mujica.

Meanwhile, who opposes the hegemonic narrative of the left?

The "anti-rights deniers."