Results: Truth, justice and memory in Argentina: Nora Cortiñas
Published on 09/13/2019
(Source: https://alborada.net/nora-cortinas-argentina-mothers-of-plaza-de-mayo/) On September 7th one of my boyfriend's best friends, Sacha Kun Sabo, got married in San Antonio de Areco, Buenos Aires, Argentina. We were invited. There I met a very special woman, Nora Cortiñas, one of the founders of Madres de Plaza de Mayo. She has been leading a group of mothers and grandmothers claiming for their missing kids. Their families were kidnapped and killed by the military government a long time ago. Their grandchildren were stolen to be raised by military families. They have been trying to find the dead ones and their descendants since then. Nora is a very small woman, talking about how she looks, but she has a very strong, unbreakable personality. For those who want to know a bit more about her and her struggle to find her son and 30000 other people who disappeared at that time, you can follow the link above, or just google her name. You will find a lot of interesting information.
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Did you know anything about Madres de Plaza de Mayo before this survey?
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"They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)" is a protest song composed by English musician Sting and published first on his 1987 album ...Nothing Like the Sun. The song is a metaphor referring to mourning Chilean women (arpilleristas) who dance the Cueca, the national dance of Chile, alone with photographs of their disappeared loved ones in their hands. Sting was accompanied by Eric Clapton, Fareed Haque and Mark Knopfler on guitar with Rubén Blades providing additional Spanish vocals. Sting explained his song as a symbolic gesture of protest against the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet whose regime killed thousands of people between 1973 and 1990. Chile and Argentina have some things in common regarding dictatorship. Sting dedicated this song to Madres de Plaza when he visited Argentina in the mothers' 30th anniversary. Can you mention any other musicians focused in defending human rights using their songs as a powerful communication tool? If you do, please give us more details in the comments below. Thanks.
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At the end of the wedding, we were given as a gift Nora's biography. It is called Norita, la madre de todas las batallas. There she tells her own story and she refers to many other unfair deaths or imprisonments. For more than forty years since Nora Cortiñas, a housewife and mother of two sons, left her quiet life to become one of the most respected and committed human rights leaders in the world as co-founder of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo (Madres de Plaza de Mayo). Nora Cortiñas was born in Buenos Aires, in 1930. Her son, Carlos Gustavo Cortiñas, belonged to the Peronist Party. He was abducted and disappeared by the armed forces in 1977. Ever since, Nora has devoted herself to campaigning for numerous human rights causes, especially those concerning state-committed crimes against humanity and enforced disappearances. Do you know anyone who has been actively fighting for a long time for human rights? If you do, please let us know more about him or her in the comments below. Thanks.
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Nora Cortiñas is just one example of the many unstoppable women who have contributed greatly to the human rights movement. Did you ever have a chance of visiting Buenos Aires and see her group gathered in their meetings in Plaza de Mayo?
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