Argentina Dictator Victims Honored
Around 100,000 Argentineans honored at the historic Plaza de Mayo more than 30,000 victims of State terror Ex-dictator Jorge Rafael Videla began in 1976.

The rally that marked the 30th anniversary of one of the bloodiest

military dictatorships in Latin America was led by the Mothers and

Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

They marched Friday from Congress to the Plaza through the main streets of Buenos Aires along with political, union, youth, human rights and unemployment movements.

Also significant was reading the Mar 1977 manifesto by murdered

journalist Rodolfo Walsh to the Military Junta denouncing its atrocities.

Other documents also called for annulment of the pardon of Ex President Carlos Menem´s top henchmen approved in 1990 and denounced Judges´ refusal to seek out the perpetrators of systematic extermination.

They also called for processing of doctors and midwives of children born in the clandestine prisons of disappeared women.

The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, whose children disappeared between 1976 and 1983, held a vigil until the exact time when the Junta announced the beginning of "a process of National Realignment."

The dictatorship also led a strategy that resulted in extreme poverty and marginalization which Argentina has not been able to overcome to date.