Restitución, identidad, verdad y justicia | Estela de Carlotto | TEDxRiodelaPlata

This talk was given at a local TEDx event, produced independently of the TED Conferences. Estela de Carlotto reflects on her 37 years' fight. Estela de Carlotto is a human rights activist in Argentina. She is the President of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Organization. She was a primary school teacher and housewife without any public appearance, mother of four children, when in November of 1977 her daughter Laura Estela Carlotto was kidnapped during the civic-military dictatorship that ruled the country and self-proclaimed National Reorganization Process (1976-1983). Soon after, in April of 1978, Estela started to participate in the activities of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. She was called by the military on August 25th of 1978 and received her daughter´s dead body. Then she started to search and demand for her grandson and other grandchildren abducted or disappeared by the military force during the military dictatorship. With that concern in mind she was one of the founders of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo and its historical president.