(7 Jul 2025)
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Buenos Aires, Argentina – 7 July 2025
1. President of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo Estela de Carlotto and Adriana Metz, the sister of the man who has now recovered his identity, updating the number of recovered abducted grandchildren to 140, celebrations
2. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Adriana Metz, sister of the man who has now recovered his identity:
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"My brother knows who he is. He knows that we are looking for him, that I searched for him, that the family searched for him, that the grandmothers searched for him. But there are around 300 people who still don’t know that their right to identity has been completely violated."
3. Number 140 displayed with text at Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo building entrance in former concentration camp
4. Close of Metz and de Carlotto
5. Various of Carlotto celebrating during news conference
6. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Estela de Carlotto, President of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo:
"With the restitution of the 140th grandchild, we once again confirm that our grandsons and granddaughters are among us, and that thanks to the perseverance and constant work of these 47 years of struggle, they will continue to appear."
7. Carlotto and others chanting UPSOUND (Spanish): "(the missing) are present now and ever"
STORYLINE:
The humanitarian organization Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced on Monday the recovery of grandson 140, a man who was stolen as a newborn during Argentina’s last military dictatorship (1976-1983) and who has been able to contact his sister, who tirelessly searched for him for years.
"We confirm once again that our grandsons and granddaughters are among us and that thanks to the constant work of these 47 years of struggle, they will continue to appear,” said Estela de Carlotto, president of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo (May Square Grandmothers).
Alongside the elderly human rights leader was Adriana Metz, the sister of the man who has now recovered his identity.
The Abuelas group estimates that close to 500 minors were stolen during repressive operations or born in illegal detention centers where their kidnapped mothers gave birth.
Most were raised by repressors or in family environments sympathetic to the de facto regime, with their identities changed.
The last case announced in January was that of a woman, daughter of disappeared communist militants, who became the 139th grandson/granddaughter found.
The son of Raúl Metz and Graciela Romero —whose name he was raised with, was not revealed by Abuelas— was born on April 17, 1977, in the clandestine center known as La Escuelita, located in the southern city of Bahía Blanca.
Metz and Romero, militants of the Workers’ Revolutionary Party—dissidents of the military regime—were kidnapped by security forces in December 1976 in the southern town of Cutral-Có, when Romero was five months pregnant.
Metz was taken from there in January 1997 and has been disappeared since. His partner gave birth to a boy three months later whilst in confinement and is also among the 30,000 disappeared of the dictatorship, according to figures handled by human rights organizations.
The newborn was taken from his mother a few days after birth and was raised by another family.
The man, now 48 years-old, was notified of his true identity last Friday after the National Genetic Data Bank confirmed it by comparing his genetic samples with those of his relatives stored in the institution.
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