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Symbol of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. an Argentine human rights association formed in response to the National Reorganization Process, the military dictatorship by Jorge Rafael Videla, with the goal of finding the desaparecidos, initially, and then determining the culprits of crimes against humanity to promote their trial and sentencing. The Mothers began demonstrating in the Plaza de Mayo, the public square located in front of the Casa Rosada presidential palace, in the city of Buenos Aires, on April 30, 1977, to petition for the alive reappearance of their disappeared children. Despite democracy being reestablished in the 1983 general election, the movement continued to hold marches and demonstrations, Today The mothers and grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo continue to demonstrrate weekly to locate and reunite with their children, grandchildren, and other loved ones who had “disappeared” during Argentina’s military dictatorship.
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