On April 30, 1977, overcoming the terror sown by the dictatorship, a handful of mothers of detained-disappeared people marched in Plaza de Mayo to demand for their children. This week, for the first time since the return of democracy with a government openly denying State terrorism, political, union, social and cultural leaders remembered the 47th anniversary of the date that is considered the founding of the Plaza Mothers of May.
The Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof, who on Monday inaugurated a Space for Memory in what was the clandestine detention and torture center La Cacha, shared a post from the province’s Human Rights Secretariat. Andrés Larroque shared historical photos, expressing “all our love for each of them and a special memory for Hebe” de Bonafini, who died at the end of 2022. “Always with you, always following her example,” he noted. “They spat on them, insulted them, called them crazy, kidnapped them and disappeared them. But they never gave up,” greeted Horacio Pietragalla Corti. “How this contradicts what we are seeing today, complicity and silence!” reflected the deputy Myriam Bregman. The APDH, HIJOS Capital, UTE-Ctera, Abuelas, the Cels, the Palotinos por la Memoria collective and Sergio Maldonado. “My love and admiration for those Women and the 30,000,” expressed Santiago’s brother and contrasted: “The deputies in Congress give this unwavering fight a nice recognition. , destroying everything achieved. “They are Miserable, Traitors and They Sell the Country.”
The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association will hold its 2,403rd march today at 3:30 p.m., with Demetrio Iramain, journalist Martín Suárez and the Cumpa Choir. The closing will be in charge of Carmen Arias on behalf of the Association.
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