Grandmothers of Plaza De Mayo

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This paper examines the fascist history of Latin American countries during the 1970s and 80s. It investigates the telling non-fiction book by Rita Arditti, "Searching for Life: The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo and the Disappeared Children of Argentina," which follows the plight of the families of missing persons during the dictator's rule. It also describes the courageous political career of the author Arditti.

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"If we thought that dictatorship and related horrifying stories were a thing of the distant past and that something of that sort was impossible in the 20th century, we must brace ourselves for the shocking truth. The decades of 1970s and 80s weren't exactly that distant a past but it was precisely this time when all our fears regarding dictatorship and fascist governments came alive in one part of Latin America. Argentina was that unfortunate miserable part of the world where fascist regime during 1970s and 80s kidnapped, tortured and killed tens of thousands of so-called "subversives"."

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