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Montevideo, February 23rd 2025 - 04:43 UTC

Tag: Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo

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

    Argentina: Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find Granddaughter Nº139

    Carlotto highlighted the importance of the collective struggle to find the children of those abducted by the dictatorship who are still listed as “missing”

    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

    Kicillof said that Sunday's march was “one of the most important marches since the return of democracy.”

    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.