The president of the association created to give visibility to the disappearance of people during the Argentine dictatorship Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, died on Sunday at the age of 93, the Argentine press reported.
Bonafini is the mother of two children who disappeared during the dictatorshipwhich founded the organization to bring together mothers of prisoners who disappeared during the so-called National Reorganization Process, the dictatorship that ruled Argentina between 1976 and 1983.
His eldest son, Jorge Omar, was kidnapped and disappeared on February 8, 1977 in La Plata, and on December 6 of the same year, the same happened to his other son, Raúl Alfredo, in Berazategui.
On May 25, 1978, his daughter-in-law, María Elena Bugnone Cepeda, Jorge’s wife, also disappeared.
Hebe de Bonafini became an activist and human rights defender with Mães da Praça de Mayo, which, however, became an organization with a political profile, described by the president himself as “a project of national and popular liberation”.🇧🇷
Since 2008, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo manages the so-called Centro Cultural Nuestros Hijos (Our Children), in the former concentration camp of the Superior School of Mechanics of the Navy, in Buenos Aires.
Bonafini was admitted to Hospital Italiano, in the city of La Plata, in October for medical examinations, but was discharged on October 13, Argentina’s Télam news agency reported.
The government of Buenos Aires has declared three days of national mourning for the death of Hebe de Bonafini, whom it called a “tireless fighter for the defense of human rights”.
Source: DN
