Tag: Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo

• Tuesday, March 25th 2025 - 08:36 UTC

  Human rights groups and opposition criticize Milei's denialist stance regarding the country's genocide in the late 1970s

  

  Argentine human rights organizations gathered Monday at Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo to deliver a speech marking the 49th anniversary of the Military Junta's uprising against María Estela Martínez de Perón. During the National Memory, Truth, and Justice Holiday, they once again addressed the disappearances and tortures during the dictatorship while blaming President Javier Milei and Vice-President Victoria Villarruel for their “denialist” approach to the issue.

• Wednesday, January 22nd 2025 - 09:07 UTC

  Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find Granddaughter Nº139

  

  The human rights organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced Tuesday in Buenos Aires the finding of “Granddaughter Nº139.” The entity seeks to determine the true identity of children born in captivity from prisoners who were later declared as “disappeared” by the military dictatorship, their offspring handed over for adoption to families ideologically compatible with the far-right de facto regime.

• Monday, March 25th 2024 - 08:32 UTC

  Argentina commemorates 1976 coup under gov't prone to siding with the military

  

  Thousands of Argentines marched through Buenos Aires' iconic Plaza de Mayo on Sunday to commemorate another anniversary of the March 24, 1976 coup by the military junta led by Jorge Rafael Videla against the democratic government of María Estela Martínez de Perón.