I
Santi was Batman and Beto, Robin. The rest of us were attacking the Batmobile, an abandoned car on the banks of the Reconquista river: I took the wheel and when I looked back through the trees I saw a patrol car coming. Our reaction was to escape. Our ten-second hundred-metre race was interrupted by the crackle of gun-shots. "Hands up". We were forced to come back. Stunned, we were lined up against some bushes where we heard one of them say: "If you don't tell us who it was, we 'll cut you down and chuck you into the river. Lopez, get the machine gun. "I watched Lopez go to the car and back, my eyes never straying from the gun barrel that he pointed at us. More questions and shouts -it was too much for Santi, who dropped to his knees crying. He begged them not to kill us, for we knew nothing. They let us go. This time, we didn't run. We were twelve years old and it was the summer of 1980.

II
"First we're going to kill all the subversives, then their collaborators, then their sympathisers, then those who remain indecisive" (statement of General Iberico Saint Jean, Governor of the Province of Buenos Aires, 1977). Over 340 clandestine detention centres operated throughout the country during the last military dictatorship as an essential part of the policy of dissappearance.

III
"Once in the plane, they were given more tranquillers. Finally they were thrown naked out of the plane, into the water of the Rio de la Plata below."