Hebe de Bonafini lived through the lives of her sons
The figurehead of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo died on November 20th, aged 93
She didn’t see it, but neighbours did. On February 8th 1977 her elder son, Jorge Omar, aged 26, was carried from his house in La Plata hooded and unconscious. The men who had tortured and beaten him there thrust him into a car. Then he disappeared.
This article appeared in the Obituary section of the print edition under the headline “A mother’s rage”
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