The group, which is composed of descendants of those who were forcibly disappeared during the last civil-military dictatorship (1976-1983) issued a statement criticizing the plans of the presidential candidates of La Libertad Avanza and Juntos por el Cambio, and urged the people to “say NO to the fascist right and build the dreamed homeland”.

“In 1995 we were born as a political organization, we embraced the struggle of our Mothers and Grandmothers (of Plaza de Mayo) and we took to the streets to demand trial and punishment for the genocidal people who threw our parents into the sea and robbed our brothers,” the statement stresses.

“We forged a collective memory that allows us, 40 years after democracy was recovered, to say NO to denialism, to the criminalization of social protest and to proposals based on the elimination and stigmatization of unions, social movements, human rights, feminists, native peoples and others,” it adds.

The organiation also denounced the violence expressed in acts such as the assassination attempt on Vice President Cristina Fernández and the repression of protesters in the province of Jujuy by the forces of Governor Gerardo Morales.

“We dream of a homeland with social justice; with a democratic judiciary that is independent from the political and economic ones; that guarantees the continuity of memory policies, of restitution of the identity of our appropriate brothers, the search and identification of the bodies of our parents and the punishment of the genocides and their accomplices,” it indicated.

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