Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo is a movement of Argentine mothers who campaigned for their children who had been "disappeared" during the military dictatorship, pursuing the government for answers between 1977 and 2006.
The Plaza de Mayo is a city square and main foundational site of Buenos Aires, Argentina. It was formed in 1884 after the demolition of the Recova building, unifying the city's Plaza Mayor and Plaza de Armas, by that time known as Plaza de la Victoria and Plaza 25 de Mayo respectively. The city centre of Buenos Aires, Plaza de Mayo has been the scene of the most momentous events in Argentine history, as well as the largest popular demonstrations in the country. On the occasion of the one-year anniversary of the May Revolution in 1811, the Pirámide de Mayo was inaugurated in the square's hub, becoming Buenos Aires' first national monument.
Rosario is the largest city in the central Argentina province of Santa Fe. The city is located 300 km (186 mi) northwest of Buenos Aires, on the west bank of the Paraná River. Rosario is the third most populous city in the country, and is also the most populous city in Argentina that is not a provincial capital. With a growing and important metropolitan area, Greater Rosario has an estimated population of 1,276,000 as of 2012. One of its main attractions includes the neoclassical architecture that has been retained over the centuries in hundreds of residences, houses and public buildings.
The Cathedral Basilica Shrine of Our Lady of the Rosary is a minor basilica and cathedral dedicated to the local Virgin of the Rosary, in the city of Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Rosario.
Hebe Pastor de Bonafini is one of the founders of the Association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organization of Argentine mothers whose children were disappeared during the Dirty War.
Rafaela is a city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, about 96 km from the provincial capital. It is the head town of the Castellanos Department. It has a population of 99,150 per the 2010 census [INDEC].
This article is about the geography and urban structure of Rosario, which is the largest city of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, and the third most populous in the country, after Córdoba and Buenos Aires. It is located about 300 km (190 mi) north of Buenos Aires, on the Western shore of the Paraná River, and it has about 910,000 inhabitants. It is surrounded by smaller cities and towns that form a metropolitan area with a population of about 1.2 million according to the 2001 census [INDEC].
Azucena Villaflor was an Argentine social activist, and one of the founders of the human rights association called Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which looked for desaparecidos.
Susana Blaustein Muñoz is an Argentine film director. She directed four films since she started her career in 1980, and produced one of them, the documentary Las Madres de Plaza de Mayo, about the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo who looked for their disappeared children during the Dirty War. Her last film was Mi casa, mi prisión.
Claudio Hugo Lepratti, popularly known as Pocho Lepratti, was an Argentine political activist volunteer who worked in a poor neighbourhood in the city of Rosario, and who was shot and killed by the Santa Fe Provincial Police during the December 2001 riots, when he tried to stop police agents from firing at a children's school.
The Roque Sáenz Peña Hospital is a public municipal hospital in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It serves as a secondary referral hospital for the South and Southwest Districts of the city.
Plaza 25 de Mayo is a plaza in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is Rosario's civic center, and the core of the original settlement. Its name alludes to the date of the May Revolution, which led to the establishment of the first local Argentine government in Buenos Aires. Before 1852, when this name was adopted, it was simply called Plaza Principal.
Kirchnerism is an Argentine political movement formed by the supporters of the late Néstor Kirchner, President of Argentina from 2003 to 2007, and of his wife Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, Senator from 1995 to 1997, 2001 to 2007, 2017 to 2019, President from 2007 to 2015 and Vice President since 2019. Although the Kirchners are members of the Justicialist Party, Peronism itself is a broad movement and many Peronists oppose them. Kirchnerism is generally considered to fall into the category of left-wing populism.
Ángela Auad was an Argentine social activist. A member of the Marxist–Leninist Communist Party, she worked with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo to locate those who "disappeared" during the Dirty War. Because of her activism, she was kidnapped, tortured and murdered.
Alicia Zubasnabar de De la Cuadra, also known as "Licha", was an Argentine human rights activist. She was one of the twelve founding members of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and served as the first President of the organization. She has been named as a "prominent woman" by the Argentine National Congress and as an "illustrious citizen" by Corrientes Province.
Zulema Castro de Peña was an Argentine human rights activist and member of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. Her two sons, Jesús Peña and Isidoro, disappeared during Dirty War of the 1970s, leading to her lifelong campaign for human rights and answers for the relatives of the "disappeared."
Esther Ballestrino was a Paraguayan martyr. Her forced disappearance occurred in Argentina during the military dictatorship of the "National Reorganization Process" (1976–1983). She had helped found Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which organised protests by the mothers of missing children taken by the authorities.
Adelina Ethel Dematti de Alaye was an Argentine human rights activist who co-founded the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organization of mothers whose children disappeared during the Dirty War of the 1970s and early 1980s. She became known as "la madre fotógrafa," or "the mother photographer," for her documentation of the Argentine dictatorship and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo through her photography. Her collection was later declared a "Memory of the World" by UNESCO. In addition to her work with the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, Dematti was also active within the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights (APDH).
María Eugenia Ponce de Bianco was an Argentine social activist. She was one of the founders of the association of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo — which searched for desaparecidos — which is why she was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered.
Beatriz H. C. Aicardi from Neuhaus, "Betty", was a human rights activist in Argentina, one of the twelve founders of the Grandmothers Association of Plaza de Mayo.
