The Plaza de Mayo mothers are symbols of resistance of all the
people of Argentina to the Videla dictatorship during the Dirty
War. During my time in Buenos Aires I try, and finally get, a
dialogue with them. By telling their present I could not fail to tell
their past: I went to ESMA, the Argentine Auschwitz and also, to
the Parque de la Memoria, a public space just across the Rio de
la Plata delta where many “desaparecidos” have found oblivion
through "death flights”. After 29 years in 2006, the Madres de
Plaza de Mayo stopped marching: "Now the enemy does not live
at the Casa Rosada," said their president, Hebe de Bonafini,
alluding to former President of Argentina Nestor Kirchner. Since
2016, however, with the coming of President Macri and his
right-wing politics, they have resumed marching sustained by
their walking sticks and their thirst for justice.
