The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, who with a white scarf on their heads have marched in front of the Casa Rosada since 1977, in protest of the disappearance of 30 thousand young people during the military dictatorship, are one of the distinctive images of democratic Argentina, which he never wants to forget that dark period of the 70s and 80s.
At the Madres headquarters, about a 20-minute walk from the square that gives its name to the association, leader Carmen Arias receives the TSF ‘matear’, that is, chatting while drinking mate, a custom of indigenous origin, from which no Argentine can separate itself.
Almost Portuguese, as she defines herself, born in Galicia, Carmen says that her main objective is to ensure that “this”, that is, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, “never ends, in memory of the missing children.”
In that sense, Javier Milei, the candidate who denies the disappearance of 30 thousand young people during the dictatorship, cannot win.
“What scares me the most is that these people try to implement a dictatorship. I always say that in a few months we will have a civil war with them.”
“Is there anything less Argentine than that? Idolizing someone who helped kill many people in the Malvinas and not being proud to say ‘the Malvinas are Argentine’, how is it possible, is someone who wants to destroy the country. “
With Milei, Carmen Arias fears, “the people will lose everything.”
“These people from Milei want to privatize public schools and public hospitals, take away subsidies for the unemployed and pensions for retirees.”
In the Mothers of Mayo, as well as in the Grandmothers of Mayo, a parallel association that has just found the 133rd person missing from the darkest period in Argentine history, “the dictatorship never again.”
Source: TSF
