In a 2011 interview, Villarruel asserted that even opposition politicians in Argentina avoided speaking about the victims of 1970s terrorism, while members of the Kirchner government treated them as if they didn't exist and, consequently, a generation of Argentinians has grown up ignorant of the complete history of that period. She said that CELTYV had so far managed to identify by name 13,074 victims of terrorists (of which 1,010 were assassinated), and added that this figure was only “preliminary.” Nevertheless, her work, which was published in her book Los otros muertos, has severe methodological problems since she included 84 N.N., victims dated before the foundation of the groups she dennouces as terrorists, victims of other groups such as the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance and could not difference between civilian deaths and military casualties.
