Forty-nine years after the military coup, the streets and squares of Argentina overflowed with people in a demonstration that articulated the legacy of the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo in one of the most powerful responses to repression, fascism, and the ongoing attacks on human rights by the Javier Milei government.
Despite some progress for LGBTI+ people in the last year, strong opposition “is spoiling the progress made towards equal rights,” says the ILGA World report.
Among the 610 total victims of the trial were 23 pregnant women, 10 grandchildren who were appropriated - 7 of whom recovered their identity - activists, students from the Night of the Pencils, a mother kidnapped along with her son and 8 trans women and transvestites.
It was the largest march ever held on March 24th. Hundreds of thousands in squares and streets declared "Never again means never again" on the National Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice.
Interview with Matías Máximo, journalist and author of the book "The Never Again of the Madwomen. Resistance and Desire in the Last Dictatorship."
The trans activist and survivor of the dictatorship was “detained” days ago in Córdoba by an arrest warrant from 1988, based on a contravention code that has not existed since 2016 and an article repealed in 1994.
She was the youngest political prisoner in Córdoba. She died on June 10, 2000, along with her partner Laura Lucero, in a suspicious crash during a social conflict.
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