ORIGENES DE LA ASOCIACION MADRES DE PLAZA DE MAYO DE MAR DEL PLATA (1976-1986)

Abstract

The repression deployed by the police, the Military Forces and the National University Concentration in Mar del Plata, Argentine, during the last dictatorship, led to the formation of opposition groups, denunciation and resistance to it. Thereby, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo of Mar del Plata was born in 1984 due to the divisions that occurred in the first human rights organization in the city, the "Mothers, Grandmothers and Relatives of the Disappeared
Committee", established between 1976 and 1977 and whose actions lasted until the mid-80s. This paper attempts to investigate the experience of this Committee - which included women who then integrated the Association- and the emergence of the local Mothers organization. Therefore, the temporary stage chosen goes from the putsch of 1976-1986, when the rupture of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo occurs, thereafter the Mar del Plata's subsidiary will be under the aegis of the Association led nationwide by Hebe de Bonafini.