As Argentine human rights scholar Temma Kaplan noted, the Mothers drew strength from “maternal politics” and nonviolence to resist genocide. Today Villaflor is honored on monuments, street names and memorial plaques. And as one of her daughters reflected on her emotional 40th anniversary: her mother “taught us to struggle with dignity… She wanted to show that mothers can change history.” en.wikipedia.org infobae.com
Sources: Contemporary journalism and historical studies of Argentina’s Dirty War and the Madres de Plaza de Mayo activistswithattitude.com en.wikipedia.org opendemocracy.net lab.org.uk condor-atlanta.org en.wikipedia.org lab.org.uk , including firsthand testimony collected from Mothers themselves opendemocracy.net lab.org.uk infobae.com activistswithattitude.com , have been used to reconstruct this account. All quotes above are from documented interviews and publications (with Spanish-language quotes translated as noted).