Space for memory
One year has passed since the death of Hebe de Bonafini
She was president and co-founder of the Association Mothers of Plaza de Mayocentral protagonist of the first marches for the appearance alive of the 30 thousand missing detainees kidnapped during the civic-military dictatorship that lasted between 1976 and 1983.
Hebe Maria Pastor of Bonafini He was 93 years old when he died on November 20, 2022 and his commitment to fighting remained until the end of his days.
She was born in the city of Ensenada on December 4, 1928 and in 1942 she married Humberto Bonafini, with whom she had three children: Jorge Omar, Raúl Alfredo and María Alejandra.
At the beginning of 1977 his eldest son Jorge Omar was kidnapped and disappeared in La Plata, and in December of that same year his other son, Raúl, suffered the same fate.
Furthermore, the following year his daughter-in-law, María Elena Bugnone Cepeda, Jorge’s wife, disappeared.
In 1979 she began her work as president of Madres, after the kidnapping and disappearance of the first head Azucena Villaflor, an entity in which she stood out for the fight for human rights, against the impunity of those guilty of crimes against humanity, together with the vindication of the revolutionary militancy of the detained, disappeared and murdered.
Hebe not only vindicated the struggles of her own children, but also promoted the collective claim of the Mothers: “They are all our children.”
As head of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo Foundation, he promoted the growth of that institution; He promoted the creation of a national university institute – today converted into a University –, a newspaper, a radio, a cultural house and a bookstore.
These milestones coincide with his ideas that human rights should be combined with social rights.
Hand in hand with this conception, he never hid his political preferences, which were expressed in his intransigent positions regarding inequalities.
Hebe’s ashes were scattered days after his death in a hole dug in the perimeter garden surrounding the Pyramid of May.
We remember it and reconstruct part of its history through testimonies preserved in the National Radio Historical Archive.
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DATASHEET
Edition: Fabián Panizzi
Music and testimonies
Who’s Who (M Batkovic) Mario Batkovic & Colin Stetson [2021 del Álbum “Introspectio”]
1976-01-17 Martínez de Perón, María Estela (President of the Nation) Call for Internal Security Council – Advance Elections
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Mothers Organization)
1976-02-16 Amerise, José (Dip FREJULI) Mascetti, César (Journalist) Rumors of a Coup d’état
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
1975-11-23 De la Rúa, Fernando (Senator) Napoli, Antonio (Senator) Attack on Solari Yrigoyen (Diagnosis Institute)
1974-08-01 Ortega Peña Funeral
1974-03-23 Mesa, Edgardo (Cronicler) Attack against Juan Manuel Abal Medina (Barrio Norte)
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
1976-03-17 Balbin, Ricardo (UCR Pres) Institutional Crisis
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
1976-03-24 Mentesana, Juan (Official Announcer) Communiqué Nº2 State of Siege
Primordium finale (M Batkovic) Mario Batkovic & Colin Stetson [2021 del Álbum “Introspectio”]
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
1976-09-22 Youth Propaganda
Invitation to the Voyage (J Kent) Julia Kent [2015 del Álbum “Asperities”]
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
2020-03-09 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°49 – Madres org)
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
1976 Advertising Let’s unite
Spread Wings (Sinesi – Moguilevsky) Quique Sinesi and Marcelo Moguilevsky [2006 del Álbum “Solo el Rio”]
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
Disappeared – Another Voice Sings – That Battle – Mario Benedetti and Daniel Viglietti [1985 del Álbum “A 2 Voces”]
Last Hour Story – Julia Kent [2019 del Álbum “Temporal”]
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
Let’s Make a Deal – Mario Benedetti [1974 Del Libro Poemas de Otros]
Primordium finale (M Batkovic) Mario Batkovic & Colin Stetson [2021 del Álbum “Introspectio”]
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
Who’s Who (M Batkovic) Mario Batkovic & Colin Stetson [2021 del Álbum “Introspectio”]
1977-12-24 Videla, Jorge R (De facto President) Christmas Message (South Room)
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
Sheared – Julia Kent [2019 del Álbum “Temporal”]
1978 Dictatorship Propaganda – Argentina ’78 World Cup
1978-06-01 Mothers of Plaza de Mayo with Dutch TV
2021 Visit of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) in 1979 (Madres Org – TVP)
Traveler on Earth (anonymous) La Chimera Ensemble [2018 del Álbum Gracias a la Vida]
2020-03-02 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – The story of Mothers (Mateando con Hebe N°48 – Madres org)
Bassoon (Fabrizio Mocata) Antonino Cicero and Fabrizio Mocata [2021-del Álbum Fagotango]
1979-09-03 De Anchorena, Tomas Joaquín (Ambassador to France) Pousá, Rodolfo (Journalist) Anti-Argentina Campaign
1980-10- Videla, Jorge R (de facto President) Interview (Presidential Office)
2019-11-04 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe (Mateando con Hebe N° 37 – Madres Org)
Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 – Aria- (Heitor Villa-Lobos) Uakti [2003 del Álbum “Classicos”]
1980-06-20 Pyronius, Edward (Cardinal) Macetti, Caesar (Journalist) Report
2020-07-06 Hebe de Bonafini – (Mateando con Hebe N°57 – Madres org)
1980-12-12 Delgado, Ariel (Journalist) Pérez Esquivel, Adolfo – Nobel Peace Prize (Radio Colonia)
1980-12-11 Pérez Esquivel, Adolfo – Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech (Norway)
1982-04-02 Mentesana, Juan (Official Announcer) Announcement-Recovery of the Malvinas Islands
Never Learned (S Plano) Sebastián Plano [2021 del Álbum “Save me Not”]
2015 Mothers of Plaza de Mayo The story – Chapter 5 Malvinas (TVP)
1982-06-15 Galtieri, Leopoldo F (Pres de Facto) Malvinas Surrender (National Network)
2005 Cafiero, Antonio (PJ) Interview (Oral History Archive – UBA-CyT)
1983-02 Bignone, Reynaldo B (De Facto President) Election date (Presidential Office)
Soul III -Ylem- (S Plano) Sebastian Plano [2021 del Álbum “Save me Not”]
2005 Cafiero, Antonio (PJ) Interview (Oral History Archive – UBA-CyT)
2015 Mothers of Plaza de Mayo The story – Chapter 5 Malvinas (TVP)
1983-10-27 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – Last March before the Elections (Plaza de Mayo)
1983-10-30 Alfonsín, Raúl (UCR Presidential Candidate) National Elections (ATC)
1983-10-27 Pastor of Bonafini, Hebe – Last March before the Elections (Plaza de Mayo)
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