Title: Imágenes de la Vida, 30 años de lucha por la vida venciendo a la muerte
Photographer(s): Archivo Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo
Writer(s): Sergio Ciancaglini, Demetrio Iramain, Luis Iramain, Inés Vazquez, Karina Downie
Designer(s): Beto Palavecino
Publisher(s): Ediciones Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Year: 2007
Print run: 2000
Language(s): Spanish
Pages: 224
Size: 25 x 35 cm
Binding: Hardcover
Edition:
Print: Imprenta de las Madres de Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Nation(s) and year(s) of Protest: Argentina, 1977-2007
ISBN: 978-987-23126-1-9
On 30 April 1977, sixteen women, mothers of desaparecidos boys and girls, arrested and made to disappear by the police of the military dictatorship (1976-1983), went to Plaza de Mayo to demonstrate in front of the Casa Rosada, the seat of government, demanding news of their children. Since then, every Thursday afternoon, more and more mothers (and abuelas, grandmothers) from Plaza de Mayo have gathered in the main square of Buenos Aires.
The demand for truth has been one of the most important episodes in the battle for human rights and against their continuous violation by the Argentine dictatorship.
Every great victorious battle for rights has always stemmed from the will of a small group to oppose an intolerable injustice, finding forms of communication to reach an ever wider audience with their protest and force the power to acknowledge its violence. This struggle, born from below, spontaneously, without political indications, within a few years became a symbol of the resistance against the military regime, which asserted itself with the coup of 24 March 1976
The desaparecidos reached around 30,000 in Argentina, but the phenomenon was common to much of South America dominated by military regimes in the 1970s.