The Venezuelan Vice President sent a message to the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Photo: Latin Press
Caracas, May 1 (RHC) – Executive Vice President of Venezuela Delcy Rodríguez sent a message of solidarity to the mothers and grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo in Argentina.
The official wrote on Twitter the day before: “Our hugs and solidarity with the great Mother Hebe Bonafini and with all the women who make up the Association of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo on the 45th anniversary of the struggle for human rights since 30th 1977 when they took the Plaza de Mayo to ask the dictatorship for the return alive of their sons and daughters”.
The association was founded 45 years ago in Argentina to demand the return of those who disappeared during the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla, then leader of the so-called military junta that ruled the Argentine nation between 1976 and 1983.
In this phase, more than 30,000 cases of enforced disappearance are calculated, most of which have not yet been solved.
This Saturday, they were paid tribute with an emotional act in the memorial and human rights room at the former ESMA, attended by government officials.
“Even with sticks and wheelchairs, the ‘crazy ones’ are still standing,” said one of the activists, Taty Almeida, 91, during the act, which paid special attention to the recently deceased musician Miguel Ángel Estrella, a tireless human rights defender.
“We weren’t heroines or anything. We did what every mother does for a child,” claiming that “they called us crazy and yes, we were crazy with pain, with anger, with powerlessness. They gave us the most precious thing.” torn away.” a woman can have, and we turn it into love, not hate, and into peaceful struggle”. (Source: Latin Press)