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Yesterday, the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo announced they found two more grandchildren, now 31 and 30 years old, whose parents were desaparecidos. That makes 95 grandchildren found by the Abuelas.
Clarin has the story here.
The two cases- Laura, 31, and Federico, 30- were born in captivity. Their parents were members of the Montoneros, the leftist guerrilla Peronista group. Their parents died while detained. The children were adopted, one by a military family, the other in an adoption not “in good faith.”
Others are still looking, like Mirta Acuña de Baravalle.
We met her and other Madres de la Plaza de Mayo, de la Linea Fundadora on Monday.
They shared their stories and the mission of the Madres, which goes beyond justice for their children desaparecidos during the dictatorship. Es la lucha por una sociedad justa.
Mirta, one of the first madres, last saw her daughter Ana Maria on August 27, 1976.
She was five months pregnant.
Soldiers took her from their home, along with her husband, Julio Cesar Galizzi.
The same day the doctor had congratulated Ana Maria on having a “perfect pregnancy,” Mirta told us.
“We know (the baby) was born. We don’t know if it was a boy or a girl,” she said.
She continues to look for her grandchild. Ana was going to name the baby either Camila or Ernesto. Now Mirta’s grandchild is 31 years, born around Jan. 12, 1977.
“I have to tell (my grandchild) about his parents,” Mirta said.
Mirta gave me this card of her daughter.
Ana Maria studied sociology. She was detained and disappeared on August 27, 1976, with her husband Julio Cesar Galizzi when she was five months pregnant.
Inside is a letter she wrote in 1972. An excerpt:
” ‘De las rosas nacieron nuevas rosas y de estas seguirán naciendo rosas’ … Es el devenir eterno, la integración en el todo, lo absoluto de lo transitorio. Mientras tanto, vivo por la alegría, por la alegría lucho y por la alegría moriré. Eso es lo que quiero de mi sino. Nunca sufras por mí. Piensa que nada ni nadie logrará derrumbarme. Es cierto, puedo ser junco al que quiebren los hombres. Pero esoy bebiendo, insaciable, para poder calmar, aunque sea un poco, esa sed tremenda de los que sufren.”
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