Taty Almeida, mother of Plaza de Mayo: “We don't have to be afraid of militancy”

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Alejandro Almeida was arrested and disappeared in Buenos Aires when he was 20 years old, on June 17, 1975. His mother, Taty Almeida, remembers that day precisely. The young man was a member of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), an urban guerrilla group that operated in Argentina during the 1970s, but his mother didn't know it until later that day. It was less than a year before a coup d'etat began in Argentina the last dictatorship (1976-198…