Tag: Estela de Carlotto

Saturday, December 28th 2024 - 09:17 UTC
Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find 138th grandchild

The social organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced Friday in Buenos Aires at the Casa por la Identidad, in the Espacio Memoria y Derechos Humanos (formerly the ESMA clandestine detention center) “the happy finding of a new grandson, the 138th.”
Saturday, July 29th 2023 - 10:38 UTC
Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find Grandchild 133

The organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Friday announced in Buenos Aires the finding of the 133rd grandchild taken during the military dictatorship (1976-1983). He is a nephew of Mario Roberto Santucho, founding leader of the guerrilla organization PRT-ERP, whose mother Cristina Navajas was kidnapped in 1976.
Saturday, March 25th 2023 - 10:57 UTC
Argentina: Human Rights groups commemorate 24M at Plaza de Mayo

Human rights and leftwing militants convened Friday at Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the last military coup d'état in the country and to insist that “Never Again” should democracy be taken away from Argentines.
Thursday, December 29th 2022 - 09:56 UTC
Argentina: New Plaza de Mayo grandson found within one week

Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Wednesday announced that the 132nd grandson taken away from his blood family during Argentina's military dictatorship (1976-1983) had been found just 6 days after the discovery of Grandson # 131.
Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 09:50 UTC
Argentina: Grandmothers of Plazza de Mayo find 131st grandchild

The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Thursday announced they had found the 131st grandchild born from parents who disappeared under the military dictatorship (1976-1983).
Monday, March 25th 2019 - 09:09 UTC
Thousands of Argentines recall the March 1976 coup and demand punishment for human rights abuses

Thousands of Argentines took to the streets on Sunday to recall “Memory Day”, March 24th, on the forty-third anniversary of the military coup that led to the country's last military dictatorship that extended from 1976 to 1983.
Wednesday, September 23rd 2015 - 06:55 UTC
'Cristina Fernandez 2019' and a Scioli 'constructive transition' burst into the presidential campaign

Estela de Carlotto, the president of Argentina's Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights organization, considered Daniel Scioli a “faithful and different man” whose triumph in the October presidential elections could pave the way for a “constructive transition” toward the “return of Cristina” Fernández to power in four years time.
Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 06:53 UTC
Pro and against Kirchner rallies on 29th anniversary of 1976 military coup

Human rights, political and social organizations commemorated on Tuesday 24 March the 29th anniversary of the military dictatorship that killed anywhere from 9.000 to 30,000 people, marking the beginning of one the darkest period in Argentina's modern history.
Wednesday, November 6th 2013 - 03:17 UTC
Cristina Fernandez could be discharged this week, but with what intensity will she return to the presidency?

On Thursday 7 it will be a month since Argentine President Cristina Fernández was forced to undergo surgery to have a blood clot removed with latest medical reports indicating time for the head of state to return to office might be coming soon. Human rights leader Estela de Carlotto, acting as an improvised spokesperson said that time could be on “November 9 or 10.”
Friday, May 17th 2013 - 17:58 UTC
Argentine ex-military dictator sentenced to life, Jorge Videla dies in jail cell

Jorge Rafael Videla, a former army commander who led Argentina during the bloodiest period of a “dirty war” dictatorship and was unrepentant about kidnappings and murders ordered by the state, died on Friday at age 87.