The president of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association, Hebe de Bonafini, was hospitalized this Monday at the Italian Hospital of La Plata, the city where she resides, to undergo a series of studies.
The leader entered the health center in the afternoon, where she underwent several routine medical examinations to control her state of health, according to her relatives.
Last Thursday, she led the march that she carries out every week together with other Mothers in Plaza de Mayo: on that occasion she invited the high school students who carry out occupations of schools in CABA to exhibit.
The day before, Wednesday, October 5, he attended the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) to witness the opening of the photographic exhibition that exposes his biography in images, with the title “Hebe de Bonafini, a rev/belada mother.”
In the presentation, he referred to his story and that of his family, and was thankful to see the photos that captured moments of his life and those of his sons Jorge Omar and Raúl Alfredo, kidnapped and disappeared by the civic-military dictatorship.
“I forgot who I was the day they disappeared, I never thought about myself anymore,” he said at the CCK event.
Reviewing his biography, he said that his parents and grandmother had taught him “the value of work” while his disappeared children taught him “what politics is.”
In the book about his story written by the journalist Ulises Gorini, he assured that his life changed the day his son Jorge was kidnapped: “That same day I went out into the street and never came back,” he summarized.
Hebe de Bonafini, born in a working-class neighborhood in the town of Ensenada, will be 94 years old on December 4.
