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Argentine Grandmas Recover 122nd Stolen Child From Dirty War

  • Argentina’s Grandmothers of the Plaza of Mayo.

    Argentina’s Grandmothers of the Plaza of Mayo. | Photo: EFE

Published 22 April 2017
Opinion

The recovered grandson is a 42-year-old father of two who lives in the country’s interior region.

Argentina’s Grandmothers of the Plaza of Mayo, dedicated to searching for children kidnapped during the country’s last military dictatorship, announced on Saturday that they recovered grandson number 122.

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The grandson, who has yet to be named, is the son of Enrique Bustamante and Iris Nelida Garcia, both of whom were critical of the Dirty War-era government.

The Dirty War, which took place during the 1970s and 80s, was Argentina’s offshoot of Operation Condor, a Cold War-era campaign of violence across Latin America. 

Through the campaign, which resulted in tens of thousands of activist deaths, the U.S. teamed up with right-wing military dictatorships to extinguish leftist movements. 

“I want to share this emotion and indescribable joy with everyone that I know,” Garcia’s sister said in a statement, Ambito reports. 

According to the statement, the recovered grandson is a 42-year-old father of two who lives in the country’s interior region.

Further information about him will be announced next Monday. 

Earlier this month, dozens of Argentine grandmothers protested Argentine President Mauricio Macri’s growing militarization of the police, which they claim resembles the police expansion under the country’s military dictatorship.

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The group also slammed Macri for wasting money on police militarization instead of boosting social programs for the country’s poor. 

Hebe de Bonafini, the leader of the organization, called on grandmothers across the country to draw inspiration from former president Cristina Fernandez, a notorious critic of police militarization.

“There is nothing that can extinguish our fire of passion, the fire that Cristina gave us,” Bonafini said, Perfil reports.

“Things have gotten so bad that Macri even travels with snipers everywhere he goes.”

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