According to plans, thousands of people will arrive at Plaza de Mayo, 49 years after the coup d’Etat against former President Maria Estela Martinez, which started the last civil-military dictatorship in this country (1976-1983).

During that period, more than 30,000 citizens were detained, kidnapped, tortured, murdered, and forcibly disappeared, while hundreds of babies were born in captivity, separated from their parents, and illegally appropriated.

As every year, the Grandmothers and Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, the Peace and Justice Service, the Central Workers of Argentina (CTA), the Autonomous CTA (CTA-A), the Justicialist Party (PJ), the Communist Party of Argentina (PCA), the Front of Organizations in Struggle, the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights, and many other organizations will gather near the Casa Rosada (Presidential Palace).

The General Confederation of Labor, the Association of Former Disappeared Detainees, the Militant Memory Group, the Coordinating Committee against Police and Institutional Repression (CORREPI), and the Movement of Former Political Prisoners and Exiles, among others, will also participate.

The said organizations urged to mobilize in unity after noon and figures such as Estela de Carlotto, president of Grandmothers; Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Perez Esquivel; and Taty Almeida, representative of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo-Founding Line, will read a document drawn up jointly.

In addition to demanding justice for the 30,000 citizens, attendees will reject denialism and hate speeches, the dismantling of memory and rights policies, the criminalization of social protest, repression, the adjustment implemented by the Government of President Javier Milei, and the possible signing of a new agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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