Argentina's Macri Orders Arrest of Iconic 90-Year-Old Activist

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Telesur

Argentina's Macri Orders Arrest of Iconic 90-Year-Old Activist



Hebe Bonafini, president of Argentina's Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, protests at the site of
a secret military dictatorship jail in Buenos Aires in 2008. | Photo: EFE

Published 4 August 2016


Hebe de Bonafini has spent decades searching and demanding justice for children and grandchildren who disappeared under Argentina's military dictatorship.


Hebe de Bonafini, the iconic Argentine human rights activist and president of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, faces arrest after she refused to testify in court Thursday, although a federal judge has had to change the date of the order since police failed to detain her due to a human chain of supporters blocking off the area in which she is currently residing.

Hebe de Bonafini has spent decades searching and demanding justice for children and grandchildren who disappeared under Argentina's military dictatorship.

The federal judge said the arrest will not be done on Thursday, but at an "appropriate time."

"It's a beautiful moment for the mothers, this is what we want, people in the street, mobilized people, happy people," Bonafini told teleSUR.

Read more: http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Argentinas-Macri-Orders-Arrest-of-Iconic-90-Year-Old-Activist--20160804-0025.html

[Ford_Prefect]

1. The actions of the Argentine court in this case show a disturbingly familiar pattern.

[47of74]

4. And you can bet cash money der Trumpenführer is looking at all these tin pot dictators..

...and taking careful notes in case he gets elected and gets to flush the Constitution down the toilet.

[forest444]

5. Oh, yeah - and on top of that these two go waaay back.

Watch for Trump's endorsement for Macri (0:08) during his first run for Mayor of Buenos Aires in '03. And they actually go back much further than that.

[burrowowl]

2. Yes!

[forest444]

3. Yes, you approve; or yes, you disapprove?

Sorry. I'm not trying to be funny; I just can't make out which one.

[burrowowl]

6. Aresting her is a travesty of justice!

[forest444]

7. Hear, hear.

You'll be glad to know her supporters thwarted the arrest - which wasn't difficult because the warrant itself authorized a search of the headquarters but not her specific arrest.

Apparently, Macri's state police showed up like gangbusters and willfully misrepresented the warrant - which is a felony in Argentina (like so many other things Macri has done since he took office, with no Congressional approval).

Above all I'm glad she's all right; at 87 (and with chronic asthma), she has to watch herself - she and all the other Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who are all about her age.

Thanks for your good thoughts!