00:00On Sunday, the president of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Tati Almeida, died in Argentina at the age of 95.
00:07She was a symbol of the fight against impunity.
00:10Tati Almeida had been in hospital for three weeks and for health, and her health had deteriorated in recent hours.
00:17Lydia Estela Mercedes, mi Uranga, popularly known as Tati Almeida, was born on June 28, 1930, in the Belgrano neighborhood
00:25of Buenos Aires.
00:27Her life changed radically on June 17, 1975, where her son Alejandro MartÃn Almeida, aged 20, a first-year medical
00:35student at the University of Buenos Aires, was kidnapped by the AAA and has been missing ever since.
00:42In 1979, she joined the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, where she became one of the most persistent advocates for
00:49memory, truth, and justice for those detained and disappeared during the dictatorship.
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