Virtual Tour
Historical settings
A long way...
Documents
Newspaper articles
News
Diana2
DIANA
Silvia-new
SILVIA
Laura-new
LAURA
  • "We are going to ask you that, if we have to leave here, you take care of the boy or girl, only you."
    Silvia to Hilda (Washington's mother)

  • "... until every minute, until every thought, until the definitive joy."

    Laura


  • "...That's why it's not necessary to be brave

    to learn to dig,

    it is enough to not be willing

    to sacrifice the only time available

    to melancholic comfort

    to remain."

    Diana

Introducción

El 21 de abril de 1974, a las 02:50 horas de la madrugada,  ocurrió uno de los sucesos más crueles durante la dictadura cívico - militar que aún conmueve y enluta a un país. 

 Un comando de las Fuerzas Conjuntas del Estado que buscaba a Washington Barrios Fernández, irrumpió violentamente, en el apartamento 3 de Mariano Soler 3098 bis, ametrallando a las tres jóvenes que se encontraban allí en ese momento.

Más de 150 balas segaron la vida de Diana Maidanic (22 años), Laura Raggio (19 años) y Silvia Reyes (19 años, esposa de Washington), que estaba embarazada.

Esa misma madrugada fueron detenidos Stella Reyes (hermana de Silvia), su esposo y otra pareja, que sufrieron por años las cárceles de la dictadura. Washington Barrios desapareció en Buenos Aires, al año siguiente, como consecuencia del Plan Cóndor.

Desde entonces los familiares de las Muchachas de Abril, no han cejado en su búsqueda de verdad y justicia, inmersa en la batalla contra la impunidad y el terrorismo de estado de las organizaciones sociales y el pueblo uruguayo. 

parallax background

Introduction

On April 21, 1974, at 02:50 in the morning, one of the cruelest events occurred during the civic-military dictatorship that still moves and mourns a country.

 A command of the Joint State Forces that was looking for Washington Barrios Fernández, violently broke into apartment 3 of Mariano Soler 3098 bis, machine-gunning the three young women who were there at that time.

 More than 150 bullets took the lives of Diana Maidanic (22 years old), Laura Raggio (19 years old) and Silvia Reyes (19 years old, Washington's wife), who was pregnant.

That same morning, Stella Reyes (Silvia's sister), her husband and another couple were arrested, who suffered for years in the prisons of the dictatorship. Washington Barrios was kidnapped in Buenos Aires by the Uruguayan military at the beginning of the following year within the framework of Plan Cóndor and remains missing.

 Since then, the relatives of the April Girls, together with social organizations and the Uruguayan people, have not ceased in their search for truth and justice, immersed in the battle against impunity and state terrorism.

Virtual route

 

WhatsApp Image 2023-07-31 at 8.58.07 AM

Recorrido Virtual

parallax background

Many years later, with the invaluable contribution of its legal representatives, the Institute of Legal and Social Studies of Uruguay (IELSUR) and the criminal investigation carried out by the Special Prosecutor's Office for Crimes Against Humanity, results are obtained. 

On November 15, 2021, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights issued a ruling on the case of Maidanik and others vs. Uruguay, which involves the extrajudicial executions of Laura Raggio, Silvia Reyes and Diana Maidanic, and the forced disappearances of Oscar Tassino Asteazú and Luis Eduardo González González.

On July 22, 2022, Judge Isaura Tórtora, after 2 years of request and 8 months after the Judgment of the Inter-American Court, ordered the prosecution of Juan Modesto Rebollo García, José Nino Gavazzo and Eduardo Klastornick, the latter two having since died, because “there are sufficient elements of conviction to maintain that they are prima facie involved in three crimes of murder in real repetition.”

On April 28, 2023, the 2nd shift Criminal Appeals Court, made up of ministers Beatriz Larrieux and Daniel Tapié, ratified the prosecution with imprisonment of retired military officer Juan Rebollo, for the murders of Diana Maidanic, 22 years old; Laura Raggio, 19; and Silvia Reyes, also 19 years old, which occurred on April 21, 1974.