Argentine “stolen baby” reunited with grandmother after 39 years
Source: Euronews
After a search that’s taken almost 40 years, Chicha Mariani has at last been reunited with her granddaughter, Clara. Clara was one of Argentina’s “Stolen babies” – children snatched by the military dictatorship that ruled the country from 1976 to 1983.
Chicha founded the Grandmothers of May Square in 1977 to held find those missing children. She also kept attention on Clara’s case through a series of open letters. “They tried to convince me that you were killed along with your mother, but I knew you were alive,” she wrote in one letter last March.
Babies born in captivity to political prisoners or, like Clara, orphaned by assassinations were given to families sympathetic to the regime.
Clara is the 120th child to be identified. An estimated 400 other children are still missing. And their grandmothers – many now in their 80s and 90s – are still searching.
Read more: http://www.euronews.com/2015/12/25/argentine-stolen-baby-reunited-with-grandmother-after-39-years/
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for all of the other families.
Here's more from Judi Lynn on the subject:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/110846488#post4
Stories like this one (one of an estimated 500 such cases of infants abducted from left-wing parents by the dictatorship) are why the new, far-right president, Mauricio Macri, must not be allowed to halt or impede the ongoing human rights trials against the 1,000 or so officers involved in the Dirty War. He hasn't actively tried to yet; but he has certainly already declared his inclination to do so.
Happy Holidays to you and yours, Ellen! 
Knowing their sons and daughters were slain, yet refusing to give up on the babies stolen and given to members of that evil regime, including military by whose hands the torture and murder were carried out. 
May they all live to be reunited with the children of their children.
