US EditionArgentina Identifies 140th ‘Stolen Grandchild’ Nearly Five Decades On
- On July 7, 2025, Argentina’s leading human rights organization dedicated to locating children taken during the military dictatorship announced the identification of the 140th such grandchild, who was born in captivity during that era.
- This discovery follows decades of work tracing children born to activist parents kidnapped in Neuquén in December 1976, including Graciela Romero who gave birth while detained.
- The newly identified man, now 48, confirmed his identity through DNA testing after initial contact with his brother via video call, as announced in a Buenos Aires press conference.
- Grandmothers' president Estela de Carlotto, aged 94, emphasized that although 140 grandchildren have been found, around 300 others born or abducted during the dictatorship remain missing.
- Despite government-led budget cuts and dismantling of key investigative units under President Javier Milei, the Grandmothers vow to continue their search and protect the National Genetic Data Bank.
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A man who was taken from his mother as a newborn in a clandestine detention center during the Argentine dictatorship has been reunited with his family after nearly 50 years. The 49-year-old, whose identity has not been released, was identified thanks to a DNA test.
Adriana Metz looked all her life for her brother disappeared by the Argentine dictatorship, but she was able to hear her voice for the first time last week, 48 years later. She was a one-year-old baby when on December 16, 1976, the military entered the family house of Cutral-Có, in the Patagonian province of Neuquén, and kidnapped her parents, Graciela Romero and Raúl Eugenio Metz. Her mother, who at that time was five months pregnant, gave birt…
Argentina identifies 140th ‘stolen grandchild’ nearly five decades on
A 48-year-old man born in a secret detention centre under Argentina’s 1976–1983 military dictatorship has become the 140th person to recover his true identity through DNA testing. Rights group Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo spent decades tracing babies taken from political prisoners and raised under false identities.
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Now 48, man becomes 140th 'stolen grandchild' tracked in Argentina
Nearly five decades after he was born in a dictatorship-era detention center and snatched from his mother, a Buenos Aires man has become the 140th person identified as one of Argentina's hundreds of "stolen grandchildren."
Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo find Grandson #140
The Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo human rights organization announced Monday the finding of the 140th grandchild, born to people kidnapped and disappeared under Argentina's military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.
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