\u201cStay alert, Stay alert; they\u2019re alive … the ideals of the abducted\u201d and presumed dead, thousands of marchers in Buenos Aires sang in the square they helped make famous.<\/p>\n
Out front was founder Hebe de Bonafini, now 88, her wheelchair pushed by activists, as onlookers jostled to get her picture.<\/p>\n
The four-decade milestone found members increasingly frail but ever determined to see their children\u2019s killers brought to justice.<\/p>\n
Defying their advancing years, the bereaved mothers who make up Argentina<\/a>\u2019s most famous human rights group<\/a> still gather every week in the square outside Argentina\u2019s pink presidential palace.<\/p>\n After all these years they are still demanding answers on what happened to the children they lost during the country\u2019s brutal military dictatorship.<\/p>\n The group was born on April 30, 1977, when 14 women gathered to protest the military dictatorship installed in a coup the year before.<\/p>\n They dared to challenge the regime at a time when repression was at its height.<\/p>\n They risked the same fate as their political activist children\u2014torture, death or simply disappearing without a trace. Instead, the generals tried to laugh them off.<\/p>\n Some 30,000 people were abducted and presumed killed by the regime or right-wing death squads in the 1970s and 1980s.<\/p>\n \u201cThirty thousand reasons to keep on fighting,\u201d read one marcher\u2019s sign.<\/p>\n About 700 people have been convicted of crimes against humanity from the last dictatorship\u2019s era, most of them military brass. Some retrials are still under way.<\/p>\n http:\/\/www.france24.com\/en\/20170501-mothers-missing-argentina-march-remembrance<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo marked four decades Sunday of marching for accountability in the abductions of their kin by Argentina\u2019s last dictatorship. \u201cStay alert, Stay alert; they\u2019re alive … the ideals of the abducted\u201d and presumed dead, thousands of marchers in Buenos Aires sang in the square they helped make famous. Out front was founder Hebe de… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":723,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/722\/revisions\/723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/baileyonlineclassroom.com\/theamericasblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}