We certainly cannot make all of Uruguay a memorial, but sometimes it may feel as though the horrors of the dictatorial era would need a plaque the size of a country to properly commemorate them. It is ironic then, that very few memorials exist to remind citizens of the events of the 1970s and 1980s. The historic prison-turned-shopping mall, Punta Carretas, is not officially recognized as a historic building or landmark nor is there any textual reference to the building’s past anywhere on the property (Ruetalo 2008: 54). This intentional forgetting through omission is emblematic of Uruguayan official rhetoric about the dictatorial era as a whole.  Uruguay’s legal obligations to international court systems are forcing the government to acknowledge their recent past and edit the historical narrative they have imposed on the country. This theoretical research project attempts to investigate the choices related to memory that have been made in Uruguay since the end of the dictatorship through the lens of the site of Punta Carretas.