Tag: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo

• Thursday, April 22nd 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentina: Mother of Plaza de Mayo VP Porota Meroño dies aged 95

  

  The Association Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Wednesday announced in a statement the passing away of the organization's Vice President Mercedes Colás de Meroño, known as “Porota.”

• Tuesday, April 16th 2019 - 09:14 UTC

  Mothers of Mayo impede an official audit of their assets as part of a bankruptcy inquiry

  

  The group of mothers of people who disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship sent a government official packing on Monday after he tried to conduct an audit of their assets as part of a bankruptcy investigation.

• Thursday, May 18th 2017 - 11:57 UTC

  An Argentine human rights reference indicted for misuse of public funds

  

  A judge in Argentina has indicted the head of human rights organization the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Hebe de Bonafini, 88, has been charged with misusing public funds allocated to a social housing project.

• Friday, August 5th 2016 - 20:23 UTC

  Argentine human rights leader arrest warrant for alleged involvement in public funds embezzlement

  

  Hundreds of supporters prevented Argentine police on Thursday from executing an arrest warrant against the 87-year-old president of the human rights groups Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in a highly politicized corruption case. Hebe de Bonafini had refused to submit to questioning about the alleged embezzlement of public funds meant for a low-income housing project, “Shared Dreams”, registered in her group’s name.

• Friday, August 28th 2015 - 06:17 UTC

  Argentine Catholic Church in the dock over snatching of babies during military dictatorship

  

  High-ranking officials of the Argentine Catholic Church were implicated in the appropriation of babies from detainees who were held in Cordoba province’s La Perla clandestine concentration camp during the last military dictatorship, journalist and writer Horacio Verbitsky, the head of the CELS human rights group, testified.

• Monday, November 11th 2013 - 15:31 UTC

  Argentina pledges full access to secret minutes from the 1976/83 military dictatorship

  

  Argentina's Defense minister Agustín Rossi said that secret minutes dating back to the military dictatorship of 1976-83 will be available for the public to read and study, while admitting that he did not know why the documents had not been discovered previously.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2011 - 05:06 UTC

  Mothers of Plaza de Mayo group queried for money laundering and fraud

  

  Over twenty offices and homes were raided by the Argentine police on search warrants as part of the ongoing investigation into alleged money laundering and fraud with government housing funds by the human rights organization Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Foundation.

• Saturday, May 1st 2010 - 08:28 UTC

  Mrs Kirchner Main Speaker at Anniversary of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo

  

  President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner gave the main speech Friday during the opening of the “Che Guevara” movie theatre at the Buenos Aires Museo de la Memoria (Memory Museum) in the framework of celebrations for the 33rd anniversary of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo organization.