Eduardo Héctor Garat

Eduardo Héctor Garat Cabanillas (Rosario, Santa Fe, 27 November 1945 – Rosario, Santa Fe, April 1978) was an Argentine lawyer and notary and a Montoneros militant.

On 13 April 1978, he was kidnapped and disappeared by the National Reorganization Process, the last Argentine civil–military dictatorship (1976-1983).

Life Garat studied law at the National University of Rosario. In 1967 and 1968, he joined the national leadership of Franja Morada before it became the university arm of the Radical Civic Union in Argentina. He participated in the so-called Rosariazo in 1969 and in 1970 traveled to Chile to celebrate the triumph of Salvador Allende's socialism. He received his law degree as a lawyer and a notary.

He was a professor of Journalism and Political Science at the National University of Rosario and defended political prisoners. He was also a member of Juventud Peronista, Partido Reformista, Partido Auténtico and Montoneros. He married Elsa María Lilia Martín, with whom he had three children.

On 18 November 1974 he was arrested for pasting posters on the street with Ricardo Massa, who also remains missing, and was imprisoned for six or seven months.

Investigation It was learned that Garat was kidnapped by a task force of the 121st Battalion and taken to the clandestine detention center located in the Salesian Seminary Ceferino Namuncurá, in Funes, Santa Fe, where Garat, Santiago Mac Guire (a former priest) and Roberto Pistacchia were tortured. reportedly in late April 1978. Pistacchia confirmed Garat's death to his brother, Carlos Garat, in 2009.

Posthumous book Display with photographs of desaparecidos from Rosario. Eduardo Garat's photograph is on the right. Texto constitucional, proyecto hegemónico y realidad histórica ("Constitutional text, hegemonic project and historical reality") is a posthumous work by Eduardo Garat. The book was previously presented at the Faculty of Law of the National University of Rosario in August 2012.

Tributes On the initiative of the Deliberative Council of Rosario, in 2009 a memorial plaque was placed in the Plaza del Foro in Rosario with the names of lawyers and employees of the Foro Local who were killed or disappeared during the rule of the National Reorganization Process. The plaque includes the name of Eduardo Héctor Garat as well as those of Juan Máximo Ferrarons, Felipe Rodríguez Araya, César Manuel Tabares, Alberto Coraza, the prosecutor Luis Eduardo Lescano and the judicial employee Roberto Borda.