Argentina IDs 133rd baby stolen during dictatorship

(28 Jul 2023) RESTRICTION SUMMARY: ASSOCIATED PRESS Buenos Aires, Argentina - 28 July 2023 1. Miguel Santucho celebrating as he arrives at news conference to comment on the discovery of his missing brother 2. Miguel Santucho, Julio Santucho, and Estela de Carlotto surrounded by crowd 3. Wide of news conference about the story of the discovery 4. Miguel Santucho with tears in his eyes 5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Miguel Santucho, brother of child that went missing during dictatorship: "The fact that I could find my brother made it clear to me how great, strong, and immensely valuable my mother was at that moment. After being deprived of her son, she continued fighting, defending life. It really fills me with immeasurable pride." 6. Wide of news conference 7. Miguel and Julio Santucho listening to a question 8. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Julio Santucho, father of child that went missing during dictatorship: "This is a victory for democracy, and a defeat for the dictatorship, because they wanted to take away our children, and we are recovering them." 9. Crowd clapping 10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Estela de Carlotto, head of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo: "The search that the Grandmothers do is a serious task, tremendously difficult, but at the same time necessary, and comes from love, so it does not hurt us. On the contrary, it encourages us to help those who know come to say what they know, those who have doubts, to come to express their doubts, and thus be able to continue finding the ones that are missing, which are approximately 300." 11. Wide cheers and applause at end of briefing STORYLINE: The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo on Friday announced that a man known as “Grandson 133”, who was stolen by authorities during the 1976-1983 Argentine dictatorship has been found. Relatives of the man, whose adopted name was not disclosed, joined the head of the organisation as the discovery was made public. Estela de Carlotto, head of the human rights organization, said that they found the son of Cristina Navajas and Julio Santucho and grandson of Nélida Navajas at a press conference attended by relatives. The humanitarian organisation said the man approached the Grandmothers spontaneously, expressing doubts about his identity. Navajas, from the Workers' Revolutionary Party and the People's Revolutionary Army, was kidnapped on July 13, 1976, along with her sister-in-law and another woman, when she was two months pregnant. From testimonies of survivors it is known that she was detained in several illegal detention centres in Buenos Aires and nearby towns and in one of them she gave birth to her son who was taken from her. Today she is among the estimated 30-thousand that were "disappeared" during Argentina's 1976-83 military dictatorship. Since the 1970s, Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo has been searching for children of the people murdered and "disappeared," who were abducted by the repressors when they were newborns or children. AP Video by Cristian Kovadloff =========================================================== Clients are reminded to adhere to all listed restrictions and to check the terms of their licence agreements. For further assistance, please contact the AP Archive on: Tel +44(0)2074827482 Email: info@aparchive.com. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/5952417d9d614c28b77d9cabee21f5cc