The history of Cordoba who volunteered for the Falklands and whose remains have just been identified

In Oliva, he was surprised to know Monday that the remains of the last ex-combatant of Malvin, whose remains were identified in the cemetery of the Argentines fallen on the islands, correspond to a resident of this city of Córdoba, department of Tercero arriba.

In principle, no one seemed to recognize this last name among the local soldiers who fought in the 1982 war. No relatives or acquaintances appeared in the city.

Until they show some data that placed Nestor Osvaldo Pizarro as being born in Oliva, a city that lived in the early years of his childhood.

Pizarro lived in Lanús (Buenos Aires) when, at age 19, he decided to volunteer as a soldier to the Malvinas. It only took a few days to leave the south of the ice.

Today, 37 years later, his remains have ceased to be an "Argentine soldier known only to God" (these graves are identified in Darwin's cemetery) and have returned to find his name and surname. . For your own history and identity.

Pizarro is already with the Cordovans 113 dead in action whose identity was revealed from the beginning of the Humanitarian Plan called Malvinas, by which the governments of Argentina and the United Kingdom have agreed to move forward in the identification of NN soldiers.

The voice He reconstructed the short story of the soldier Pizarro by Cordova.

The family

"We are very emotional, with a lot of emotion, which is why I still do not talk much," said Elda Pizarro, sister of Néstor, Lanús.

The woman barely remembered her stay in Oliva. Like his family, he lived much of his life in this city of Buenos Aires. "We left very young, I do not remember very well my age Nestor and I were children, we live in the city of Córdoba and we finish in Lanús," he told the newspaper.

Proud of her brother, she confirmed that she had joined the Falklands War "as a volunteer" at the beginning of her 19 years. He was the second of four brothers. Single and without children.

Elda said the memory of Nestor was still present in the family: "My father and one of my brothers traveled to the islands years ago," said the woman, who had provided the sample of 39; DNA for comparative badysis with the remains of the victim. he is.

After identification, they can now renew this trip, as has happened, with the support of the state, with several recent similar cases.

Coincidence has made its contribution: on June 12, it is the anniversary of the death, in combat, of the soldier Pizarro.

Reconstruction in Olive

In Oliva, we do not talk about anything else. Word of mouth, the neighbors were transmitting data to rearm their relationship with this veteran.

It was established that his mother, Ángela Álvarez, was from that city. It was there that her father met her, who had come to Oliva and had done her housework in rural chores. For a few years, while the man had a job, they lived there.

A family member is gone. At present, three cousins ​​live in this area, for example, although they have not had contact with Néstor's parents and siblings for decades.

Gabriel Fioni, president of the Falklands National Museum in Oliva, said that Ramón Pizarro, Néstor's father, had confirmed that his son was born in this city and had lived there until the age of 6 years. The birth certificate that local ex-combatants have found proves it.

Ramón also said that they had settled in Córdoba, where the 6-year-old Nestor child had started kindergarten at school on 20 June.

Fioni thought that Private Olivense "had died carrying ammunition in full combat" and confirmed that he "was voluntary".

There are nine left

With confirmation of the identification of a new ex-combatant, the Secretariat for Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism of the nation has reduced the list of soldiers whose identity n & # 39; 39 has not been confirmed yet. But the list is narrowing. Of the 122 cases identified more than a year ago, only nine remain.

The humanitarian project plan has the participation of specialists from the Argentine team of forensic anthropology, essential in the task of identification.

Pizarro was 19 years old and was working in Lanús when he enlisted voluntarily in the Airborne 4 artillery group. I wanted to go to war in the south.

He died in the early hours of June 14, 1982, when his artillery group tried to prevent British troops from approaching Puerto Argentino.

According to the story reconstructed by the testimonies of surviving veterans, Pizarro would have been hit by the bursts of a missile as he was fleeing from his post looking for others. projectiles to refuel his group. These witnesses said that on the islands they had dubbed him "the prince".

In 2015, the Malvinas Veterans Center in Lanús inaugurated a monument in his tribute to a square in this city.

Four olive

In Oliva, they reinforce their already close relationship with the Falklands war. There were 11 children from this city who fought on the islands. Four of them did not come back. The figure is unusually high compared to its number of inhabitants.

It is not surprising, in this context, that this city (about 12 000 inhabitants) is the seat of one of the main museums of the Malvinas in the country.

A striking fact is that, among those killed in combat, there is one for each of the forces that intervene and for each military rank existing in the war: "Lieutenant Carlos Castillo, of the army of the day. Corporal Ángel Antonio Arce of the Navy, Sergeant Assistant Edgar Ochoa of the Army, and the soldier called Néstor Pizarro of the Army, "quotes Fioini from the local museum.