A crowd filled the Plaza de Mayo for Remembrance Day

After two years, thousands of referents, militants and demonstrators from social, political, trade union and human rights organizations gathered this afternoon in the Plaza de Mayo and its surroundings to commemorate the National Day of Memory for the Truth and the Justicia.La main call came from human rights organizations such as Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Founding Line, Relatives of disappeared and detained for Political Reasons, H.I.J.O.S. Capital and CELS, who called from 2:00 p.m. to concentrate on Avenida de Mayo and 9 de Julio to march towards the square. In turn, the mobilization was attended by different political, social, union and leftist organizations, which have been concentrated since mid-morning in various parts of downtown Buenos Aires. In fact, in the Plaza de Mayo, around 2:00 p.m., the groups PTS, MST, the New MAS and the Workers’ Party began around the Pyramid of May the first act of the day, along with the Memory, Truth and Justice Meeting.Meanwhile, the organization La Cámpora held from mid-morning, along with other related spaces, his traditional walk from the premises of the former School of Mechanics of the Navy (Esma) to the center of Buenos Aires. It should be noted that at the closing of the central act Grandmothers and Mothers of Plaza de Mayo read a document on stage.” There is nothing to celebrate, today 30,000 disappeared detainees are commemorated. I want to thank you for the support. They show that they have a memory,” said Taty Almeida, a member of the founding line of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. 

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