The Daughters of the Plaza de Mayo

by David Moshman

In the late 1970s some 30,000 Argentines, mostly young men and women thought to have leftist sympathies, were kidnapped and tortured to death by the military government, which denied what was happening. In response, the mothers of the disappeared came together and marched in Buenos Aires at the Plaza de Mayo, demanding week after week that their children be returned or accounted for. Democracy was finally restored, with promises of truth and justice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595409180
• ISBN13: 9780595409181
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"