Argentina's Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Support Venezuela's Constituent Assembly

"Comrades, dear Venezuelans, I congratulate you on the struggle ... I am sure that this Constituent Assembly will win it," said Hebe de Bonafini, the president of the Argentine association Grandmothers and Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.

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Since 1977, Bonafini and other mothers and grandmothers of disappeared or murdered children have met weekly at the Plaza de Mayo square in Buenos Aires in front of the Casa Rosada presidential palace.

On Wednesday, the activist reaffirmed her commitment to the defense of Venezuela's sovereignty and support for the National Constituent Assembly to be held in the Caribbean country on Sunday.

In a video message, the human rights defender stressed that the battle has already been won thanks to the strength and assistance provided by late Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez to his countrymen and the people of the continent.

"Surely, we will win,” she said. “Latin America needs us to win — I say we will win because I feel Venezuelan."

Mothers of Plaza de Mayo is an association formed during the dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla in order to recover the missing detainees, initially, and then to establish those responsible for crimes against humanity and subsequently pursue their prosecution.

The women wear a signature white handkerchief in a traditional protest to demand justice for more than 30,000 people who were disappeared by the military regime in the U.S.-backed Dirty War.