Buenos Aires, Argentina – It felt like she had run out of doors to knock on.

It was 1977, and Argentinian teacher Taty Almeida had grown desperate. No one seemed able or willing to help her find her missing son, Alejandro, a 20-year-old medical student and political activist.

He was last seen on a street near his home in Buenos Aires. Almeida suspected government-backed paramilitary forces had snatched him, as part of a crackdown on political dissidents.

But no one seemed to be able to locate Alejandro. It was as if he had simply disappeared.

So Almeida made a decision that would change her life forever. She went to the central square in Buenos Aires, just steps from the presidential palace, and joined a group of bereaved women who gathered there each week.

Together, they circled the square, holding up photos of their children and asking, "Where are they?"

The group became known as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo. For the last half-century, they have been searching for the children and grandchildren abducted under Argentina's dictatorship, from 1976 to 1983.
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