24 March 1976
General Videla Seizes Power in Argentina
Demonstration Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires
25 January 2001
photo: Kees Rodenburg
On March 24, 1976, a military junta under General Jorge Rafael Videla takes power in Argentina. He disbands parliament and suppresses all political parties and trade unions. A year later, a group of 14 mothers who had met in the waiting rooms of police stations while trying to discover the whereabouts of their children, organize the first of a series of demonstrations in front of the Presidential Palace in Buenos Aires. Ever since, each Thursday afternoon the Madres de la Plaza de Mayo demand that the fate of the victims be made known.
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