A mothers march for justice
After checking in on Thursday, the Hostel worker recommended we headed to Casa Rosada – we were apparently lucky because every Thursday at 3.30pm there is a “presidential march” in the square.
As duly advised, we headed to the square expecting to see a military march but instead were met with what seemed to be older women marching in protest against the government. Confused and convinced we were in the wrong place, we started to enquire with other onlookers.
Apparently these were the weekly marches. These marches are organised as a protest against the thousands of people that were killed by the military regime between 1976 and 1982 (known as the “Dirty War”). The mothers of the people who were killed (Madres de Plaza de Mayo) were there to demand that something be done as no one has been prosecuted for this. Some of them looked over 90 years old, barely able to march. We were certainly in the right place and something tells me there is much more political history to Argentina than I had first imagined…
