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cove red with a blanket. I lifted the blanket and saw thick
grass and a heavy metal screen outside of it. I could see many
tall trees, and at the end, high woven wire, a pick-up truck
and a kind of garage. It would be possible to escape by
breaking the window and cutting the metal screen. We were not
very high up, surely the fourth or fifth floor. Blankets would
be needed to climb down. But was the woven wire electrified?
And what lay beyond? I could not see. Furthermore, we had to
take our chains off. They they took us to bathe, they unlocked
the padlock with a master key that the chief of the guards had;
he gave it to them only on those occasions. I realized that my
husband was very weak because of everything that had happened,
and that he also had a dislocated shoulder. However, it would
be a question of giving it more thought. One day, while I was
washing the plates, they took me to wash diapers and rubber
pants. This Impressed me very much because I realized that
there were children on the other, side from where we were. At
that time I heard the voice of children about 4 years of ages,
asking the guards why their fathers had those things on their
heads.. I asked the guard how it was possible for children to
be there. He said that they were the only ones and that they
had been brought with their parents because there was no place
to leave them. However, they were going to be taken away the
next day. Another day I was taken to the linen room to arrange
the clothing they were taking to the laundry, by sex and size.
Again I saw children's .clothing in those places, I heard the
voices of women who were working in the kitchen and sewing torn
clothing. When the guards finished their shifts, they said
that they were going to the swimming pool. One day they took
me down to one of the boxes. They took off my hood and left me
alone for a moment. I looked at the walls of the box and was
impressed by the number of bloodstains. Some of them were very
high. I don't know how they' did it but since the stains are
very large and there are small splattered stains around
them-monstruous. He came back and told me to talk to him about
something. I told him that I did not know anything and that
the only thing I was thinking about at that time was my husband
and my child; that I had nightmares about my son and that if
they did not release me, I would take off my hood and that I
knew very well that that meant that the guards would kill me;
that they should release me, that I did not know why they were
keeping me there. He told me that it was very likely that I
would leave. They told a guard to take me upstairs again. On
one occasion when the guard was not watching, I told my husband
that I would probably leave and that he should be on the
lookout for times When the guards were not watching so that we
could talk. But there were watching us, especially from that