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forest444

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Thu Dec 10, 2015, 04:46 PM Dec 2015

Macri operatives accost Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo during International Human Rights Day march. [View all]

Victoria Montenegro, head of the National Coordination Unit for the Prevention and Eradication of Violence Against Women, captured an incident on video this afternoon in which Macri militants wearing his trademark yellow "Let's Change" and "Macri for President" T-shirts accosted the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

The verbal epithets launched against the women, many of them in the 80s and 90s, included references to "guerrillas" and calls to "kick them out" of the historic Plaza de Mayo square.

The human rights organization headed by Montenegro repudiated the attack, declaring on Twitter that "perhaps the "revolution of joy" militants (in reference to Macri's campaign slogan) do not know that today is International Human Rights Day. The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo have been marching for justice for almost 40 years, and are a symbol around the world for that struggle. If you live in a democracy, it is thanks to these women."

At: https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=es&tl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.politicargentina.com%2Fnotas%2F201512%2F10362-denuncian-que-militantes-de-cambiemos-agredieron-a-madres-de-plaza-de-mayo.html
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They didn't let nightsticks stop them during the dictatorship:


They're certainly not going to let anyone to stop them with insults.

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