Mario Bravo: Argentine man snatched from mother at birth meets her 38 years on thanks to Grandmother

Mario Bravo: Argentine man snatched from mother at birth meets her 38 years on thanks to Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo

Organisation that identifies children believed to have been kidnapped during the years of the junta regime and reuniting them with their grandparents, celebrates bringing a mother and son back together for the first time
David Usborne |
@dusborne |
Wednesday 2 December 2015|

As a baby Mario Bravo was snatched from his mother in an Argentinian jail so fast that she never knew her child’s sex. This week, Mr Bravo, now 38, was returned to his mother in the latest success of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo which has fought for years to reunite families torn apart by the Dirty War.

As Argentina watched agog, Mr Bravo appeared appeared at a press conference in Buenos Aires and announced that thanks to the grandmother’s organisation he had just come from a first meeting with the mother he had never before had the chance to know.

The interest in the case is intense. The grandmothers have been focused primarily on identifying some 500 children believed to have been kidnapped during the years of the junta regime and reuniting them with their grandparents; Mr Bravo had been designated grandchild No 119. The mothers or their fathers are assumed to be among the roughly 30,000 Argentines who were “disappeared” by the junta.

“A child has never been reunited with his mother,” Mr Bravo told a radio station in Santa Fe province, where he was placed as an infant with a family sympathetic to the generals at the time and where he still lives today. “Sadly everyone has found (their parents) dead due to state terrorism. Uncles have met nephews and grandsons with grandmothers, but never mother and son.”

More:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/mario-bravo-argentine-man-snatched-from-mother-at-birth-meets-her-38-years-on-thanks-to-grandmothers-a6757891.html

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