I had chosen the international Non Governmental Organization: Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo / Madres de Plaza de Mayo.
This is an association of Argentine mothers whose children were “Disappeared” during the state terrorism of the military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983. Argentina suffered a riot and the military took over possession of the presidency and turned the country by itself in a country ruled and governed by the national army. With this change, people that were openly complaining about this anti-democratic move, were automatically silenced. In the other hand, the people that were kidnapping innocent people never took ownership of their actions and these mother were literally looking for their children at any police station because witnesses had seen that these kidnappers were policeman or army from Argentina’s government.
There is a big park in front of the “Casa Rosada” (Argentinian’s white house) that is called “25 de Mayo”. The mothers start gathering together and started sleeping in this park , complaining in a peacefully way and requesting to the government and national media to provide a list of the people that were missing and to acknowledge that the government was the cause of this terrible mass kidnapping thing.
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They started collecting evidence to put in jail the major militants that were kidnapping and also to release a list of all the victims of the people that were disappeared. Mothers of Plaza the Mayo were also concerning of their pregnant daughters that were kidnapped and in vary occasions the little born babies during incarcelation were given away to people that were supporting the dictatorship regimen. After several AND tests they were able to find some of their “grandchildren” on the Mothers of plaza the
Imagine a world where the social and economic conditions for the farm workers and immigrants get worst year by year, where the discrimination among these people growth and never decline. What would happen to farm workers if Dolores Huerta shouldn’t have made any action to change their situation? This same question should be in the mind of many Americans who don’t appreciate all the effort and work that Huerta put in to change our nation. Persistent, powerful, brave, strong, simply a heroin are the best words to describe Dolores Huerta, who is one of the most important women who contributed to the creation of an equal and fair society in the United States because, she founded the Agricultural Workers Association (AWA) and also she helped create the National United Farm Workers Association (UFWA) with Cesar Chavez, she helped organize a nationwide boycott of abusive grape growers, and she founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation.
In mid-February 2015, I began to meet people who belonged to the community of "Lomas de Rosa Inés", which is a suburb of invasion, located two blocks from my apartment, this community lives in extreme poverty in wooden houses, and on that site the Government has started a housing plan over 8 years ago and not finish it leaving it abandoned, so it was invaded by followers of the "Bolivarian revolution" and over there live many of the members of the "motorized groups" operating in the area where I lived and that are responsible of committing all sorts of crimes such as robberies, theft to stores and to extort money from merchants to let them work and are responsible for monitoring the activities of government’s opponents and sabotage the protests
Dolores Huerta was born on April 10th, 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Dolores was the
All they wanted was an answer to one question “Where were their children? Their sons and daughters were “missing” and all they were told was” We don’t have any answers! The citizens were afraid, even high authorities of religious groups turned a blind eye. In 1977, with Argentina under a violent military dictatorship, a group of mostly house wives living in a fear oppressed state made a stand and found their voice. They demanded to be heard and while the regime was enforcing their control and power over Argentinians political views through torture and disappearance; a mother’s devotion to her child and the political resistance transformed these mothers into a political force. They are the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who effectively mounted a civil rights movement that forced the top military officials to be charged for their crimes and have sustained an
In the second chapter of the book, the main character’s mother ranted off to herself about why the authority was behind it. She ranted off in questions then answered them herself, never giving anyone else the chance to answer, showing her frustration, and anger. It states, “a poppy or a gun? Good made the plants but man made the guns.”(pg. 13) Because in the novel and in Guerrero most of the people kidnapped were girls, her mother had to dress he daughter up as a boy and fake her daughter’s gender to keep her safe, showing the frustration and anger that the situations makes the mother fret about her safety. Also, the mother shows her hatred towards the government for these attacks because when she is ranting about them in the second chapter, she says, “of course, “guaranteed,” and “damn” (pg. 13) as she lists all those in authority who is behind the attacks, showing just how frustrated she is with her country, demonstrating the authors concern for her country considering the attacks in 2014. To conclude, the author shows her concern for Guerrero, Mexico by using the elements of voice to demonstrate the problems and attacks of
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