A pioneer in the fight against the Argentine military dictatorship and a staunch militant of kitcnerismo, she has passed away at the age of 93
The historic president of the Argentine association Madres de Plaza de Mayo, founded during the military dictatorship (1976-1983) to find out the fate of her children and other prisoners who had disappeared from the regime, Hebe de Bonafini, passed away today at the age of 93. The news was confirmed by the country’s Vice President, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, who wrote on her Twitter account: «Dear Hebe, mother of Plaza de Mayo, world symbol of the struggle for human rights, pride of Argentina. God called you on National Sovereignty Day… that shouldn’t be a coincidence. Just thank you and goodbye ».
Bonafin, a mother of two who, like her daughter-in-law, disappeared during the dictatorship and who had worked for decades as an activist and human rights defender in the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, was fired on October 13 after spending three days in the Italian hospital in the city of La Plata for medical checks, according to the Argentine news agency Télam.
On April 30, 1977, a few months after the military coup in Argentina, sixteen women marched arm in arm around the Pirámide de Mayo demanding the whereabouts of their missing children. Their weekly meetings in the same place became a symbol of the struggle for human rights and against the military dictatorship. One of them was Hebe de Bonafini, who founded the association Madres de Plaza de Mayo to make visible the disappearance of people during the last dictatorship, although she herself defended its evolution until it became an organization with a clear political profile.
“We are a political organization, now with a national and popular liberation project,” later emphasized Bonafini himself, who developed a highly controversial profile after the dictatorship by becoming a staunch militant of Kirchnerism.
Source: La Verdad
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