La constitución y las variaciones en el acceso a los fondos documentales del Archivo Provincial de la Memoria de Santa Fe, Argentina

Abstract

In this text we intend to analyze the different stages and drifts of the documentation kept in the Provincial Archive of the Memory of the Province of Santa Fe (Argentina). This archive gathers information produced by government agencies of control and surveillance in information and intelligence circuits and contains the "Documentary Fund Directorate of Information and Central Intelligence" (1966-1993), the "Provincial Police Documentary Fund" (1963-1984) which could be expanded with material from a recent find, and the “Prison Service Documentary Fund” (1956-1992), among others. We propose to make history the changes in the management of these documentary collections even before the formal constitution of the archival institution. For this text, we rely on oral and written sources, and we consider the political dimension at the national and provincial levels and the reparation and memorial policies. Taking into account both the uses of the documents as evidence in the trials of crimes against humanity and the investigations into the repression, our main questions are: What was the trajectory of each of the collections of the Provincial Archive of Memory? And what criteria did the access policies depend on for various uses?