Argentina: Man Located After 37 Years

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The head of a human rights organization that searches for hundreds of babies stolen by Argentina’s military dictatorship decades ago has located her grandson after 37 years. Estela de Carlotto, leader of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, told reporters in Buenos Aires on Tuesday that she had found the son of her daughter Laura Carlotto, who was kidnapped while pregnant in 1977. She was later murdered as part of the dictatorship’s “dirty war” against guerrillas and people associated with leftist ideology. Mrs. Carlotto’s missing grandson, Guido Carlotto, 36, was raised as Ignacio Hurban. He is married and a pianist and approached Mrs. Carlotto’s organization because he doubted his identity. DNA tests proved that he was Mrs. Carlotto’s grandson.

“I didn’t want to die without hugging him,” said Mrs. Carlotto, 83. Mr. Carlotto is the 114th child stolen by the dictatorship, which held power from 1976 to 1983, to discover his true identity. In 2012, military leaders were convicted of executing a systematic plan to steal babies from prisoners who were kidnapped, tortured and killed.