Make the streetin dictatorship: Trans memories of state terrorism in Uruguay (1973-1985)

De 1973 a 1985 tuvo lugar en Uruguay una dictadura cívico-militar. Durante ese período muchas personas sufrieron las consecuencias de la violencia del régimen, como la persecución, el encarcelamiento, la tortura y el asesinato. Durante ese período las mujeres trans (travestis) fueron sujeto de persecución por parte de los agentes del régimen, que las consideraban una degradación moral y social, vidas no calificadas que había que contener y marginar dado que no encontraban lugar en su proyecto político y en gran medida constituían una amenaza para este. El presente artículo se propone dar cuenta de la violencia que sufrieron las mujeres trans en ese período. Se basa en testimonios de personas que realizaron trabajo sexual en calle durante la última dictadura uruguaya. El estudio sitúa esa violencia contra las mujeres trans como parte del terrorismo de Estado.
From 1973 to 1985 a civic-military dictatorship took place in Uruguay. During that period many people suffered the consequences of the regime's violence, such as persecution, incarceration, torture and assassination. During that period, trans women were subject to persecution by the agents of the regime, who considered them a moral and social degradation, unqualified lives that had to be contained and marginalized since they could not find place in their political project and to a large extent they were a threat to it. This article aims to account for the violence suffered by trans women in that period. It is based on testimonies of people who performed sex work in the street during the last Uruguayan dictatorship. The study situates the violence of the State towars the trans women as part of the State terrorism.
Universidad Pablo de Olavide