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Argentina group ID 131st baby stolen during dictatorship

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina –

DNA tests have confirmed that a man was taken from his mother as a baby under Argentina’s dictatorship, a human rights group said on Thursday, increasing the number of cases of this kind to 131.

Estela de Carlotto, president of the Grandgrands of Plaza de Mayo, said at a press conference that the man, whose name was not released, has been identified as the biological son of Lucia Angela Nadin and Aldo Hugo Quevedo.

Nadin and Quevedo, from the western province of Mendoza, belonged to an armed leftist group and were detained in late 1977 in the capital, Buenos Aires. At that time Nadin was about two or three months pregnant.

Testimony from survivors revealed that Nadin was released from the prison where she was held in March and April 1978 to give birth.

Neither she nor Quevedo was found.

During the bloody dictatorship of 1976-1983, military officials carried out the systematic theft of infants from political prisoners, who were often executed without a trace.

Plaza de Mayo’s grandmother estimates around 500 children were taken from their parents during the dictatorship and used DNA tests to locate them.

Nadin’s family, unaware that she was pregnant at the time of her disappearance, left DNA samples in the national genetic database in 2005.

Following a judicial investigation, a man suspected of being the child of missing parents was located in September 2022. He agreed to carry out a genetic study and his identity was confirmed. confirmed on Wednesday as the son of Nadin and Quevedo, de Carlotto said.

The last time the human rights group identified a person who was taken from their parents during the dictatorship was in June 2019, when it was announced that Javier Matias Darroux Mijalchukis was the biological son of Elena Mijalchuk and Juan Manuel Darroux , both are still missing.

“For the past few years, despite the pandemic, we have continued to work every day with the hope and belief that we will find our nephews and nieces who could be anywhere in the world. world,” said de Carlotto. “Hundreds of men and women with doubts about their origins have come to us.”

Over the past four years, more than 2,000 people who doubted their identity have undergone genetic testing, she said.

“It’s been a quiet, patient and loving work, but we still have a long way to go and unfortunately time doesn’t stop,” de Carlotto said. “Over the past few years, we’ve had to say goodbye to dear teammates, and many of them were never able to get the hug they deserved.”



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