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En 1977, Us "Madres de L· Plaza de Mayo confrontèrent L· dictature de l'Argentine au sujet des enlèvements politiques. Les Madres ont reformulé L· perception sociale des victimes, préférant capter l'attention internationale et domestique. Ce mouvement unique des femmes n'a pas dévié de son but premier qui était de chercher les enfants disparus et demander justice pour eux.
En 1977, las Madres de L· Plaza de Mayo empezaron a confrontara L· dictadura argentina, denunciando su política de secuestros. Las Madres cambiaron L· percepción social de las víctimas de L· dictadura atrayendo L· atención doméstica e internacional. Este movimiento de mujeres mantiene los mismos objetivos: el de encontrar a sus hijos desaparecidos y procurar justicia para sus muertos.
They can't negotiate with the blood of our children.
- Hebe de Bonafini, President of Las Madres
Between 1973 and 1981, thousands of Argentines were victims of political kidnapping by their government. Jorge Rafael Videla and the military junta in Argentina conducted a campaign of state terror against the population wherein any person deemed 'subversive' was abducted by the military, never to be seen again. The culture of fear that was fostered in the country prohibited dissent, but a group of mothers desperate to find their missing children resisted. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (the Madres) formed a movement for change, struggling to overcome the public acceptance of the kidnappings by demanding the return of their children in the public sphere. A critical element of their protest was their mobilization of alternative images of the subversives, which ultimately aided in reorienting the social parameters of acceptability around the disappearances.
When the junta assumed power in a coup d'état in 1973, the dictatorship initiated a dirty war against its political opponents, primarily the leftist guerrilla groups and communists (Ocampo). However, the war was also aimed at the general population of Argentina to quell resistance to the regime (Nordstrom 266). Civil institutions and mechanisms to protect citizens from government corruption were dissolved under the guise of state security and surveillance was maintained upon all citizens (Corradi et al. 2). Then the campaign of kidnappings began, which was arbitrarily and brutally conducted.
Those who disappeared were hidden at detention centres, tortured and executed. Their bodies were disposed of in...