President of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Taty Almeida passed away on Sunday at 95. Beloved by her fellow mothers and the rest of the human rights movements, she spent more than 50 years seeking answers and justice for the disappearance of her son, Alejandro Almeida, at the hands of the far-right paramilitary group known as Triple A in 1975.
“Our dear Taty Almeida, president of Mothers of Plaza-Founders Line, past away June 14 at 7.20 p.m. We will promptly communicate when the wake will take place. “30,000 detained-disappeared are present, now and forever!” read a statement from the Almeida family.
Almeida was one of the most prominent human rights leaders in Argentina for the past four decades. She became president of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo-Founders Line in December after the death of her predecessor, Norita Cortiñas, in May 2024.
Born June 28, 1930, under the name Lidia Stella Mercedes Miy Uranga, everyone knew her as Taty, and she would later take on her ex-husband’s surname. She came from a conservative military family and worked as a teacher for a few years in the early 1950s before she quit to dedicate herself to raising her children, Jorge, Alejandro, and Fabiana.
Taty Almeida with Herald Editor-in-Chief Estefanía Pozzo (middle) and former managing editor Amy Booth (Credit: Guido Piotrkowski).
