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Plaza de Mayo Grand-mothers head finally gets to know her kidnapped grandson born in captivity
The 83-year-old head of the Argentine human rights movement which works to track down babies stolen by the country's brutal 1976-83 military dictatorship has found her grandson after a 35-year search, a relative said on Tuesday. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesCongratualtions, this is wonderful, wonderful news. Very happy for them both!
Aug 06th, 2014 - 09:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0A positive end for one family to come from an horrific episode in Argentina's history that affected many.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 10:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0Forgive me if I am reluctant. Her well-paid apple-polisher attitude towards the Kirchner couple, the fact that many of her sons have being appointed in the gov, her derogatory words to anyone who does not celebrate the gov´s decisions, the timing of this news, etc... all that make me be really careful.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 11:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0I have never seen this lady having a word of comfort to any of the thousands of mothers who lost their sons to criminals during these years.
Also, and without trying to say that the dictatorship was right (they screwed things to the farthest extent), let´s not forget that her daughter was member of a terror group which kidnapped and killed people, so stop trying to sell her as an innocent victim.
She is the leader of a corrupted Org used by the Ks to funnel money to cronies.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 12:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0What most would call a useful idiot.
@3 My thoughts exactly.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 12:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I think this is a ruse to divert attention.
I had always defended both, the “Mothers of Plaza de Mayo” and the “Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo”, but then I realized that I was wrong and I regretted having supported them. These people published comments during the last years has gone from giving public demonstrations of support to the attackers of September 11th to protect terrorists and murderers of civilians and military during the decade of the '70s.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 12:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All this for receiving thousands of pesos and dollars current corrupt government. These people have become political operators of the Peronist government and I even don't believe she has found her grandson now. It's only political propaganda to distract public opinion's from the current economic disaster.
Estela de Carlotto was an appellant in the current government action against the media group Clarin. She Accused one of the main shareholders of kidnapping his grandson, now it is quite clear that she was wrong ..
@1 and @2 I share the same feelings and today I will go on working by the Grand Mothers and Mothers side in order to find the rest of 400 grand sons and grand daughters who do not know their identity yet. It is difficult to understand the everyday of the victims of the Genocide and their family when one is living abroad or pick kinda of information up from bias newspapers.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“information up from bias newspapers”..we are all misinformed and confused by newpapers. That's the reason why I only read and watch on TV official and pro-government news.....
Aug 06th, 2014 - 02:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 07. If I wanted to know the whereabouts of my distant family I would simply hire a private investigator. There was a TV program in the 1990s that did that kind of job too.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 02:48 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The government controls the intelligence services archives the armed forces archives and so on, they could easily have founded the 400 or so by now, but they choose to transform this old hags into a massive budget with privileged pensions, govt positions, corruption deeds, etc and make a political use of it.
But still a Good News story for the innocent child taken from his mother?
Aug 06th, 2014 - 05:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Plaza de Mayo Grand-mothers head finally gets to know her kidnapped grandson born in captivity”
Aug 06th, 2014 - 06:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Had me kinda cringing there for a moment....
I'm glad to read that there is more to the Grandmother then just her head that gets to meet her grandson.
Visions of a Game of Thrones type thing....
Good things happen, but sullen critics always find a way to darken the day.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 07:47 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good for MercoPress to publish the story, but find out more (Ignacio actually took the first step to find his real identity) by reading a longer article on Pagina 12.
http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-252358-2014-08-06.html
Too bad all the kidnapped “stolen generation” Children in Canada, Australia, and the United States have no one to advocate on their behalf and never will.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yeah, we still can't find more than 10 people that were part of the “stolen generation” in Australia.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 09:57 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems we have finally found something that Argentina does better than Australia-steal children.
10 people? Wow, what an incredible indictment of ineptitude.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
12.000 is the most conservative figure. 20.00-25.000 is a given, more radical sources claim up to 100.000.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
And guess what.... you are doing it AGAIN!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generations
WOW... 2015 and Australia still stuck in the mentality of circa 1885.
See, not even Nostrils can find more than 10 names of children that were removed just for being Aboriginal, and not for welfare reasons.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0But then again, he was never able to argue. His autism might make him good at languages but as he has clearly shown over the years, it doesn't make him good at anything else.
“welfare” reasons... that is your supposed escape valve/code word.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 10:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Well, guess what, the children of the disappeared were ALSO removed for “welfare” reasons.
So why do you complain about it?
If you want to find ANYONE just turn it over to the people who track down delinquent student loans in the US. They will find them. Be sure of it.
Aug 06th, 2014 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0That baby singlehandedly took the entirety of the Middle East, Russia, EUialand, China ratings, MERCOSUR, and NorthAmoland off the news cycle.
Aug 07th, 2014 - 02:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0One argentine baby more important than 3 billion people.
19. Only if you are reading Arg news web sites. It didn't even make the top 10 stories in my google news feed about Argentina.
Aug 07th, 2014 - 03:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@20
Aug 07th, 2014 - 05:08 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Those are the only website that matter for Argentines. The rest are irrelevant. duh.
Come on people! What are we becoming?
Aug 07th, 2014 - 07:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Commentators above have managed to digress in several directions instead of just enjoying a (rather rare) good news story.
They have managed to take us on a tour of the horrible iniquities suffered by defenseless children in at least three other countries.
Now you tell me how a happy event in Argentina diminishes the gravity of injustices happened elsewhere? I would hope not much!
Then we have another smart a**s wondering whether the story made the news and another one claiming that it did and that makes ”one argentine baby (is) more important than 3 billion people.”
Sickening.
“Now you tell me how a happy event in Argentina diminishes the gravity of injustices happened elsewhere? I would hope not much!”
Aug 07th, 2014 - 07:33 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh but that is the entire foundation of their garbage pile. If Argentina “did it”, then whatever we did is immediately excused, forgiven, absconded, forgotten, and tabooed.
I'm glad you see what I'm doing.
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