Olga Cabrera Hansen

In November 2016, on the premises of the City Council of Rosario, she was declared "Distinguished Lawyer of the city of Rosario by Olga Cabrera Hansen, in honor of her vast unwavering career and invaluable contribution in the field of law, striving for the fundamental guarantees of people in any situation and place, actively participating as an advocate for the causes of Humanity carried out in the city of Rosario and their contribution in the CONADEP in the Never More dedicated chapter to the province of Santa Fe and in particular to the city of Rosario".9 She was accompanied by her three children, Julián, Amarai and Martín Cochero.

Voices that break the silence is a sculptural, graphic and audio installation that achieves the unthinkable. The piece can be seen and, fundamentally, heard, as of March 2016 in the courtyard of the Museum of Memory, in Córdoba, Argentina corner Moreno, a place of Memory where the Second Army Corps operated in the last dictatorship.12 The lawyer Olga Cabrera Hansen, the psychologist Marta Bertolino, the worker Teresita Marciani, Susy Solanas and Estela Hernández gave their testimonies in 1984 in the trials of the military juntas. All of them were detained by the military dictatorship. Theirs are only five voices among many others, but they have the double peculiarity of expressing the harsh reality of the forced disappearance of people while it was suffered by women, while arming a referential web where the same names of victims are crossed and victimizers, beginning the clarification of the destinies of the disappeared and the responsibilities of their murderers and torturers.

In 2011 tribute was paid to lawyers, most of whom graduated from the National University of Rosario, who took up the defense of victims of the last military dictatorship and who accompanied relatives in the search for justice.

In 2010 began in the Federal Courts, the second oral and public trial for crimes against humanity committed during the last military civic dictatorship in the area of the Great Rosary, in the case known as Diaz Bessone (ex "Causa Feced). The case "Díaz Bessone" has as imputed a soldier and five civilians, who are accused of carrying out the repression in the clandestine center of the Information section of the Police Headquarters, considered the most important that worked in the city. in the cause are the former commander of the Second Army Corps, Ramón Díaz Bessone, and former policemen Rubén Lofiego, Mario Marcote, Ramón Vergara, José Scortechini and Ricardo Chomicky, the heart of the repressive apparatus that acted under the orders of the deceased former head of the Rosario Police, Agustín Feced.

In November 2010, Olga testified in front of the Federal Oral Court: she was not another witness, but someone who embodies the very history of the cause that investigates State terrorism in the region.

Rosario de Galtieri. The obediente city, Argentina / 1997. Documentary / Color: 38 minutes. Period in which Galtieri decided who would live, die or be tortured. Testimonies of survivors and relatives of the disappeared of Rosario and surrounding areas. TESTIMONIANS: Victorio Paulón, Aisa Nelma Drake de Jalil , Dionisio Tessan, Alberto Minella, Francisco Oyarzabal, Alicia Gutiérrez, Darwinia Galichio, Bárbara Peters Tozzi, Dolores Araya, Manuel Blando, Olga Cabrera Hansen, Roberto Rosúa, Rubén Naranjo, Marta Bertolino, Alejandra Manzur.

Until 1979, when she started working at APDH, the agencies limited themselves to receiving requests from relatives and processing habeas corpus that always had negative results. One day, the witness was with Delia, and three young women arrived asking about their sister, María Sol Pérez Losada. "Did she suffer from the kidneys?" Olga asked. It was like that, then, she told them to go to Buenos Aires to talk to two detainees who had been with her. "With that anecdotal fact the entire chain of denunciations began," the lawyer recalled yesterday.

When she was released, in 1978, she was not paralyzed. She approached the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights and began to tie things together, relate relatives of the disappeared with former detainees, to reconstruct the courses in what she called yesterday "that sinister puzzle". Together with her colleague, Delia Rodríguez Araya, they investigated complaints and gave form to the Feced case, which began in January 1984 in the provincial courts.

After a massive transfer of female detainees to the prisons of Devoto and of men to Coronda, few remained in the basement of the Jefatura. They took them to the Warden. Olga is there until September 1977, without seeing the light or leaving.

It happened in February 1977. When the delegation began to ask, Olga could not contain herself. Everyone was silent but she could not and said everything: "No judge knows I'm here, and this is two blocks from the courthouse, we do not see the sun, we do not have visitors, here we just torture and kill people." Afterwards, they told him that he could have left at that moment, but for everything he had said he was going to stay two more years. So it was.

He recalled that the then chaplain of the police, Eugenio Zitelli, defended the torture in front of detainees. In general, they had all been raped, since it was a systematic practice of the detention center and he recalled that some of the compañeras who were Catholic, asked for spiritual assistance, were frightened by what the priest told them. He justified torture as something to obtain information, but the violation if it outraged him, said that it was immoral. In January 1977, the door opened and María Inés Luchetti de Bettanín arrived with a newborn baby, for whom neither I even had clothes. Among the detainees they made an improvised trousseau with pieces of their own clothes.

The women who were there receive it, help it, clean it, contain it. Among others were Ana Maria Ferrari, Graciela Villarreal, Roxana Colombo and Adriana Koatz. They took Ana Ferrari every night, they put her up, a Sergeant Vergara was looking for her and they tortured her, the oppressors were particularly angry with Ferrari. Graciela Villarreal was also terribly tortured. Adriana Koatz, was a student of chemical engineering and was a member of the Peronist University Youth when she was arrested on October 21, 1976 and taken to the Information Service. From there she suffered a string of blows, tortures, vexations. She recalls that she shared captivity in the basement with Ester Fernández, Graciela Villarreal, Ana María Ferrari, Olga Cabrera Hansen, among others. Among men she remembers Pérez Risso and Piccolo. She was then referred to Villa Devoto where her father gave her the news that her sister Edith Graciela Koatz had been murdered along with her husband Palmiro Labrador Pérez.

In September 1975 a bomb exploded in her classroom. A few days before the coup, in February 1976, Hansen's house blew up with another bomb. At the end of 1976,while she was at home with her three children and another person,Eduardo Carafa who was an engineer, and came there for legal works. the Army stopped her car while she wants to go out with her family early in the morning. They were taken in assault cars. They were left her three children in the yard. The oldest was 10 years old at that time.

Olga Delfina Emilia Cabrera Hansen (January 13, 1935) is a distinguished lawyer from the city of Rosario, victim of Argentina's last civilian military dictatorship, human rights activist and a person who worked the most, since the legal field, for the reconstruction of what happened in the clandestine detention center and the Information Service (SI) of the police headquarters of Santa Fe, Argentina, in Rosario during that period (El Pozo de Rosario).