Madres de Plaza de Mayo
Yesterday after going to La Boca, Angie headed back on a crazy cab ride to the Plaza de Mayo. The Madres start marching at 3:30pm on every Thursday. We got there a bit late, but the were still marching. It was very interesting, to see that the atrocities of the Dirty War are still affecting the people today.
Angie said that there are two groups of Madres. One group, has accepted that their children are dead, but still march for the cause. The other group does not accept that their children are dead, even thought the know it, because to admit that they are dead is to agree to the fact that there is injustice.
But unlike I had read before, the do not march with pictures of their loved ones pinned to their clothing. They dress normally, but wear a scarf with cross stitched wording on them, and march with a large banner in front, with people following them.
After the march, the Madres move to the statue in front of the Casa Rosada to do a speech. It´s a rally, where they speak, speak out against Bush, and speak for communism. Their children were revolutionaries at the time that the were killed, so the Madres are taking up their children´s fight by the marches and speeches.
Tags: Buenos Aires, Travel
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