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99 3 LOCATION: “25 DE MAYO” FREEWAY BETWEEN AV. ENTRE RÍOS AND AV. JUJUY TRANSPORTATION: BUSES: 4, 6, 12, 23, 37, 50, 53, 84, 95, 96, 126, 150, 151, 188. SUBWAY STATIONS: ENTRE RÍOS AND PICHINCHA (E LINE). LÍNEA E Estados Unidos Carlos Calvo Humberto I Dr. Jenner Av. San Juan Cochabamba Constitución Pavón Av. Independencia 67b 67h 67e 67d 67c 67g 67i 67a 67f Est. Pichincha Est. Entre Ríos Pic hin ch a Ma the u Alb ert i Pa sc o Rin cón Sa ran dí C. de los Po zo s Av. Entre Ríos Solís Virrey Ceballos Nine disappeared members of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo were honored in October 2003, when the Buenos Aires City Council decided to name a series of residual green spaces from the 25 de Mayo Freeway after them . Today these sites, which have been neglected by the government , contrast sharply with the monumental freeway conceived by the dictatorship’s municipal government under the control of Brigadier Osvaldo Cacciatore . 67a. Plazoleta María Eugenia Ponce de Bianco LOCATION: DR. JENNER 1900, BETWEEN COMBATE DE LOS POZOS AND SARANDI María Eugenia was kidnapped with seven other people on December 7 , 1977 , as they were leaving a meeting organized by the Madres in the Santa Cruz Church (see p . 89) . Her kidnappers belonged to a Special Task Group* from the Navy School of Mechanics (ESMA, Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada; see p . 153); Frigate Lieutenant Alfredo Astiz reported to this force . The operation continued over the next days and resulted in the disappearance of five members from that founding group . The Madres had been raising funds to publish an announcement in the newspapers; they had met in the church to count the money and collect signatures . This was when Lieutenant Astiz, who had infiltrated the group using the name Gustavo Niño, left the meeting early and kissed some of the Madres goodbye to identify them to their kidnappers . “I remember that I was leaving arm in arm with María Ponce, ” recalls María del Rosario de Cerruti, “and suddenly a group of men pounced on us . They pushed me and pulled Mary’s arm 67 . Small Squares (Plazoletas) – 25 de Mayo Freeway JENNER STREET BETWEEN COMBATE DE LOS POZOS AND SARANDÍ. LOCKED AT 3:00 P.M., THIS SMALL SQUARE ALSO SERVES AS A MUNICIPAL WORKSHOP. SAN CRISTÓBAL 100 from mine . I was screaming; I didn’t know what was going on . I kept asking, ‘Why? Why?’ and they said, ‘This is a drug bust’” (Gorini, 2006) . At fifty-three years of age, María Eugenia was one of the most politicized members of the Madres, thanks to her experience in the Communist Party . On December 20 several bodies were discovered on the coast in Santa Teresita, a beach resort in the province of Buenos Aires . María Eugenia and the other Madres had been thrown into the ocean in one of the “death flights”* . Many years later, on April 16, 2005, her body was identified through the meticulous work of the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team* (EAAF , Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense) . 67b. Plazoleta Esther Ballestrino de Careaga LOCATION: ALBERTI 1300, BETWEEN COCHABAMBA AND CONSTITUCION Esther was one of the founding members of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo . Born in Uruguay, she grew up in Paraguay, where she was an activist in the Febrerista Revolutionary Party . She played a leading role in the struggle against dictator Higinio Morínigo during the 1940s . As a teacher and a doctoral fellow in biochemistry and pharmacology, she organized the Paraguayan Women’s Movement and was its first secretary general . Persecuted for her political activism, she went into exile and settled in Argentina in 1947 . On June 13, 1977 , Esther’s youngest daughter, Ana María, was kidnapped and taken to the Clandestine Detention Center known as the Club Atlético; she was three months pregnant . Esther immediately approached the groups of family members who were beginning to organize to formulate their demands . Though Ana María was released soon afterward, Esther decided to continue fighting for the release of all those who had been detained and disappeared . This gesture was to help shape the future of the Madres de Plaza de Mayo . On December 8, 1977 , Esther was kidnapped in the Santa Cruz Church by a Special Task Group and taken to the ESMA . After being held for...

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