In Argentina during the years 1976–1983 the military assumed power, employing oppression, torture, death, and disappearance to intimidate the citizenry. A group of mothers, who met while searching for their “disappeared” children, banded together in 1977, organized the group “Madres de la Plaza de Mayo” (Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo), and protested publicly the atrocities that were being inflicted on the Argentine people. Through the support of their group, the public protesting, and the continuation of their disappeared children's work, the Mothers transformed their grief into positive action.
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