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Montevideo, May 9th 2025 - 13:44 UTC

Tag: Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

  • Tuesday, March 11th 2025 - 10:04 UTC

    Founding member of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo passes away aged 95

    “The disappearance of my daughter was a terrible thing, and it still is,” she once said

    Aída Bogo de Sarti, a founding member of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo Línea Fundadora, passed away aged 95 last Saturday, her family announced Monday in Buenos Aires. She became an icon of resistance after her daughter, Beatriz Sarti, was kidnapped and disappeared in May 1977 during the dictatorship (1976-1983). Joining other mothers like Azucena Villaflor in Plaza de Mayo, she turned her personal grief into a lifelong fight for memory, truth, and justice.“We mothers are saying goodbye little by little, leaving the best legacy we can,” the organization mentioned in a statement.

  • Friday, May 31st 2024 - 10:35 UTC

    Mothers of Plaza de Mayo leader Nora Cortiñas dies aged 94

    Cortiñas also supported the identification of Argentine combatants fallen during the 1982 South Atlantic war, among other causes

    Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (Founding Line) President Nora Cortiñas died Thursday in Morón, on the western outskirts of Buenos Aires, from complications resulting from a hernia surgery she had undergone days earlier. The iconic human rights activist was 94.

  • Thursday, April 25th 2024 - 22:24 UTC

    CFK announces her return to the limelight since leaving office

    It will be a good time to review the useless suffering to which the Argentine people are being subjected, CFK explained

    Just one day after being labeled a “political corpse,” former Argentine President (2008-2015) Cristina Fernández de Kirchner (CFK) announced her return into the limelight this coming Saturday when she will attend the opening of a gymnasium in the town of Quilmes on the outskirts of Buenos Aires which will be named after her late husband and also former head of State (2003-2008) Néstor Kirchner.

  • Monday, September 4th 2023 - 11:35 UTC

    Argentina: Leftwing terrorism victims' event sparks reaction from human rights groups

    Congresswoman Villarruel has long pressed for the reopening of the statute-barred crimes of Montoneros and ERP

    Human rights organizations in Argentina Sunday expressed their rejection of Libertarian Congresswoman and Vice-Presidential candidate Victoria Villarruel offering a “tribute” on Monday to the victims of terrorism in the 1970s at the Buenos Aires City Legislature.

  • Monday, November 21st 2022 - 10:45 UTC

    Mothers of Plaza de Mayor Leader Hebe de Bonafibi dead at age 93

    Hebe's ashes will be laid to rest at Plaza de Mayo at her own request

    Hebe Pastor de Bonafini, Argentina's iconic Mother of Plaza de Mayo, died Sunday. She was 93. She had been discharged on Oct. 13 from a La Plata hospital but was admitted again on Nov. 12 after her health deteriorated.

  • Thursday, March 24th 2022 - 22:40 UTC

    Thousands of Argentines march 46 years after coup d'état

    “Never again, never again,” repeated the crowd in memory of the coup d'état that deposed the three constitutional powers presided over in 1976

    Tens of thousands of Argentines marched again to Buenos Aires’ Plaza de Mayo (Mayo Square) on Thursday, 46 years after the coup d'état that installed a dictatorship responsible for tens of thousands of disappearances, exiles and executions in clandestine centers.

  • Thursday, May 3rd 2018 - 08:22 UTC

    Pope sends a greeting message to “Mothers of Plaza de Mayo” on their 41st anniversary

    The Pope’s greeting was addressed to Ana María Careaga, daughter of one of the founders of the association, Esther Ballestrino de Careaga

    Pope Francis sent an audio message for the 41st anniversary of the “Madres de Plaza de Mayo” (Mothers of Plaza de Mayo), who protested against the disappearance of their children during the Dirty War (1976-1983) of Argentina’s military dictatorship.

  • Wednesday, March 25th 2015 - 06:53 UTC

    Pro and against Kirchner rallies on 29th anniversary of 1976 military coup

    “We continue to demand that the wall of silence is broken in order to find our grandchildren” said Plaza de Mayo Grandmothers leader Estela de Carlotto

    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.

  • Thursday, November 7th 2013 - 08:19 UTC

    Last Argentine military Junta had plans to remain in power until 2000

    Julio Cortazar and Mercedes Sosa among the writers and artists blacklisted

    Neatly kept and organized documents dating to the start of Argentina’s last dictatorship, 1976/1983, shows the names of activists who went missing and citizens blacklisted under the regime, officials announced in Buenos Aires. The documents also show that the military junta had planned to hold onto power until 2000.

  • Friday, May 24th 2013 - 06:55 UTC

    Former Ford executives charged in Argentina for human rights crimes

    Members of the Human Rights organization Madres de Plaza de Mayo Linea Fundadora and other demonstrators hold portraits of people who went missing in the 1976-1983 military dictatorship (AFP)

    Three former Ford Motor Co. executives have been charged with crimes against humanity in Argentina for allegedly targeting union workers for kidnapping and torture after the country's 1976 military coup.

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