Human rights
Mother of Plaza de Mayo Visitación de Loyola dies at 101
Mother of Plaza de Mayo Visitación Folgueiras de Loyola passed away on Sunday at 101 after suffering a stroke a week ago, the...
Buenos Aires HeraldApril 20, 20260
Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo receive record-high number of inquiries
The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, an organization looking for the people stolen as babies by the last Argentine dictatorship, received a record-high...
Buenos Aires HeraldApril 13, 20260
Late dictatorship criminals house searched for potential repression files
The judiciary conducted a search in the house of late former army commander Carlos Suárez Mason, who was responsible for clandestine detention and...
Martina JaureguyApril 13, 20260
Argentina stops sending DNA kits to identify potential children of dictatorship victims in Europe
The Argentine government is no longer sending DNA kits to consulates to identify potential children of dictatorship victims who are currently residing in...
Martina JaureguyApril 9, 20260
Government to change human rights undersecretary again after just three months
The Argentine government will appoint Leonardo Szuchet as the new human rights undersecretary this week to replace Joaquín Mogaburu, who has only been...
Martina JaureguyMarch 31, 20260
Institution key to finding babies stolen by dictatorship suffers 60% budget cut under Milei
President Javier Milei’s austerity policies have hit one of the main pillars in Argentina’s fight to find and identify those who were “disappeared”...
Martina JaureguyMarch 28, 20260
Argentines call for memory, truth, and justice 50 years after the last military coup
Human rights organizations, unions, social groups, and hundreds of thousands of Argentines marched to the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the presidential...
Martina JaureguyMarch 27, 20260
Argentines call for memory, truth and justice 50 years since the last military coup
Human rights organizations, unions, social groups and hundreds of thousands of Argentines marched to the Plaza de Mayo, in front of the presidential...
Martina JaureguyMarch 25, 20260
March 24, 1976: the day Argentinas darkest period began
It was the early hours of Wednesday, March 24, 1976. Outside, it was dark. Sunrise was still several hours away when the voice...
Martina JaureguyMarch 24, 20260
The liturgy of memory
Every March 24 the same words return to Plaza de Mayo: Memoria, Verdad y Justicia. The march, the banners, the chant — and,...
Jordana TimermanMarch 24, 20260