Tag: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo

• Saturday, June 15th 2019 - 07:50 UTC

  Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo identify the 130th child of disappeared parents

  

  The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo released this week the identity of the son of a young couple disappeared while under arrest during the bloody Argentine 1976/1983 military dictatorship. Javier Matías Darroux Mijalchuk thus became the 130 child, now a full grown man, to have been identified by the human rights group.

• 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, August 6th 2014 - 08:28 UTC

  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.

• 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.

• Sunday, June 19th 2011 - 23:10 UTC

  Clarin family yields to growing pressure from Argentine government

  

  The adopted children of the influential Argentine media conglomerate ‘Clarin’ have agreed to have their blood drawn for DNA analysis. Blood samples from siblings Marcela and Felipe Noble Herrera will be checked at Argentina’s National Genetic Data Bank (BNDG).