Rubén Osvaldo Bufano, a former member of Battalion 601 and accused of being one of those responsible for the kidnapping and disappearance of the writer Haroldo Conti , coordinated the work of private security at the site Barrick Gold Veladero, in the province of San Juan, from 2006, trade unions and professional sources confirmed of that capital Cuyo. Today, the businessman heading now trying to get a lecture on "intelligence and security" in the Catholic University of San Juan, according to human rights activists trusted.
Recycling Bufano, also accused of having participated in the call Slaughter Fatima, in Pilar, province of Buenos Aires, is part of the logic of the police particularly the multinational mining, these days, he was again denounced by "chasing" and "listen to phone calls" from environmentalists of Union of Citizens Assemblies.
Medero Ramón Gómez, member Union Environmental Assembly San Juan, argues that "the question of the private police of a secret Barrick circulating. In fact, cheap labor and dirty work for the company is the very provincial police. But the work of monitoring, listeners, and threats against us came from such experts. "She adds that when the protests were made against opencast mining, Barrick had his office in downtown San Juan. "From there we saw a very tall blonde people who were not here and were part of that private security. The reports that we have tell us that they are men who took part in conflicts international war, more precisely they were in the Iraq war. It looks like a science fiction movie but it is not, "says Ramon.
Mederos Gómez explained that "the so-called D-2 of the provincial police serves the mining, namely that public safety is at the service of crime, but this is a pattern not only occurs in San Juan, if but also in Catamarca, Chile and Peru where he recently made a film about it called Operation Devil ".
For the militant founder of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights Cuyo capital, Eloy Camus, also the author History Book victims of state terrorism. San Juan, Argentina, Bufano came to town from the hand of Jorge Escobar, "the Menem Fujimori, successful entrepreneur, was to produce good government. At that time with an army corporal, Obredor, Bufano founded OVYS and security with this company began to receive government benefits for Escobar, which was to protect state enterprises privatized and some clinics, such as ADOS , among other establishments. Bufano is able to fend for the Menem that still exists in San Juan. "He adds that Bufano" walk freely through the streets of San Juan as it was a great lady though many know of his past. It is therefore essential to further deepen democracy to lose fear and regain our dignity. It is no coincidence that for the recycling recycle repressive repressors. It is vital to proceed with the reconstruction of memory and it is also necessary to put into question the judicial branch is made the fool in these situations impunity. "
Bufano's presence on campuses of private security Barrick reenacts the History of The Forest, another transnational dedicated to the exploitation of natural resources, which in the twenties of last century its own armed police, the gendarmerie wheel, "also called" The Cardinals " with support from the government of Santa Fe
The Barrick has the trade name of Minera Argentina Gold. In 2009 turnover of 2200 million pesos at a rate of $ 4243 per minute, standing in the position 71 among the 1000 best-selling companies in the country.
CONTI SEQUESTRATION. In the report Nunca Mas, the National Commission on Disappeared People, part of the file is read 77 that relates to the arrest of Harold Peter Conti, author of the Southeast, in life, around the cage and the famous Mascaro. On May 4, 1976 "was arrested when he returned to his home in Buenos Aires at midnight with his partner Marta Beatriz Scavac Bonavetti and baby both. They had to wait for a friend. Arriving at the house, the friend was already handcuffed, had a group of people in civilian clothes, who severely beat the couple and locked there, while fighting for the division of spoils: the salaries of both perceived that morning economic effects of any kind, leaving barely large furniture. They stole all the original works of Conti and personal documents, "says the document.
Later, the report states that" the newspapers dated November 13, 1982 were account of the arrest in the city of Geneva, Switzerland, three Argentines who belong to groups declared secret of political repression, authors whose ransom kidnappings in that country would charge were arrested and who said they were in a position to provide information on Conti's destiny. " Based on the photographs, "broadcast at the time of the individuals arrested in Switzerland (Bufano, Martinez and others), Mrs. Scavac acknowledged that the" friend "who was at home before the arrival of the forces that captured Conti who called himself Juan Carlos Fabiani (who had attended Conti house a week before the kidnapping seeking asylum because they feel persecuted by the police because of their political affiliation), was arrested Ruben Osvaldo Bufano-owned, according to their statements, the Army Battalion 601. The children of Harold and Conti, Marcelo Alejandro, from his first marriage, also recognized the photographs, and the courts, as belonging to 'friend' who were in the house of his father when he once visited ... "" In security and intelligence, to me the Argentine army I was trained very well. I owe everything I know, I owe him my life. Deny this would deny my past life, " Ruben Osvaldo Bufano said the Diario de Cuyo, on Thursday, August 22, 1996.
That statement was the result of the complaint made by then-deputy national socialism, Alfredo Bravo, on the activity of repressor in democracy through his company West, Security and Safety (OVYS) that provided services to the Association of Social Work (ADOS) and Edessa, the firm that had stayed with the privatization of electricity in the province of San Juan in time Jorge Escobar government.
"Bufano was the face of the company OVYS in the '90s. The firm guarded the hospital Almirante Brown the day the psychologist Rosa Maria Pacheco de Balamaceda was last seen. She disappeared on June 2, 1996, "wrote the journalist Daniel Tejada in the Diario de Cuyo. Two months later, came the public repudiation of Bravo to the presence of Bufano.
On June 24, 2004, the abductor's face reappeared in the newspaper. Requested his arrest as an alleged participant in the call Slaughter of Fatima, which occurred on August 20, 1976, when 30 people housed in the Social Security Superintendence of the Federal Police were brought in trucks and a point of Route 8, At kilometer 62, at a place known and Fatima, in the Buenos Aires district of Pilar, the shot. The case was being investigated by federal judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral. In June 2004, then ordered the arrest of agent 601. But the cause was also unsuccessful.
THIS GOLD. For legal intricacies, Bufano dribbled the cause, remained free and back to San Juan found a good job position: he became, through the company Custo, one of those responsible for private security Barrick Gold, which October 2005 had initiated the exploitation of the deposit of gold, silver and copper Veladero, at 4,000 meters. This information was confirmed by Association leaders miners in Argentina, San Juan and delegation of professionals from the city and the region of northwestern Argentina.
Three private security companies are those that have served the powerful Barrick: Custo, Prosegur and now The Guardian, by the former provincial police Raúl Morán.
"Custo was a company that said to come from Switzerland. There, one of the people who handled everything was Bufano. I know him very well, "said a leader of the Mine Workers Association of San Juan to this reporter. To verify the data called another former member of a security force, also linked to security Canadian mining company private. And it's funny, because Bufano was in Switzerland when he was arrested in 1982 and where other survivors of the dictatorship also acknowledged as an infiltrator in different political organizations working in exile.
Professionals working in the capital today San Juan and in northwestern Argentina recognized the accused of involvement in the kidnapping of Haroldo Conti as one of the main coordinators of the private security at the site of Barrick Veladero.
According to former provincial legislator Diego Segui, "if anyone wants to go the way mining, mining easement or call, you can not do because the private security company Barrick prevents the passage. There comes a detailed requisition and can only happen if the authority comes from the company whose headquarters is on the hill but in the capital city nearly 150 miles away. That is a provincial road but the company has control. "
adds that during 2009 took out a court case investigating the origin of 4x4s sold in Mendoza to foreign prices. "In fact it was stolen, reduced and then re-armed to be sold in the neighboring province. The investigation determined that the origin of this material was the site of Veladero. But justice came to nothing, because when the judge who was conducting the investigation wanted to enter the establishment, the private security firm will not let her. That is, a power over provincial justice itself. It was a scandal, but it was not anything else, "said Segui.
Huarpe The journalist, Ernesto Simon says do not be surprised if it returns Bufano as security chief of Barrick. "I remember Bufano owned two service stations Race, in downtown San Juan. It is also known for his involvement in the events surrounding the disappearance of the psychologist Pacheco. The problem is that Bufano acts behind someone else, because he knows that his past is known. He must be well camouflaged, "he says.
Judge criminal enforcement of the province, Margarita Camus, a member of the Center for Legal and Social Studies, says: "More than four years ago I asked for reports about court cases that involve Bufano and to my surprise jumped that the arrest warrant that had been waged against him was void. " Said that recycling was Bufano through OVYS security agency, the protection of the sanatoriums and clinics as ADOS and that his name came to be on the table with the disappearance of the psychologist Pacheco. "A woman who works with kids who knew about the drug business here in San Juan. Bufano was investigated, the case fell apart and really had trimmed outrageous. What has to be clear is that these people continued doing what he did before. None of them got a dining ... "jokes Camus.
While the mining bill more than 4200 pesos per minute, Bufano, an expert in security and intelligence, walking calmly through downtown streets of San Juan. Knows that the multinational is guarded by experts much like himself. \u0026lt;
