Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo welcomed the 133rd grandson.

"We have found the son of Cristina Navajas and Julio Santucho, the grandson of late Abuelas member Nélida Navajas".

These were the words of Estela de Carlotto, head of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, at a press conference last Friday in Buenos Aires, to announce the finding of grandson 133.

On Twitter, Abuelas informed: "today, the grandson will meet his brother, his sister, his father and a huge family".

In this regard, Miguel Santucho, brother of the recovered grandson said "welcome, dear grandson. You are a victory of our democracy".

"It is one of the most brilliant moments of my life. I can hardly believe what I am living," said Miguel.

The human rights organisation had indicated when announcing the conference that "almost 40 years after the beginning of the longest democratic period in our history, we are still searching for our grandsons and granddaughters, every day".

The restituted grandson, whose name has not yet been released, has two children. He learned his identity on 26 July through the National Commission for the Right to Identity (Conadi) and has already met with his father and his brothers, Miguel and Camilo.

According to the reconstruction of his story, he had not yet been born when her mother was abducted on 13 July 1976 by a group sent by the dictatorship.

Cristina Navajas was born in 1949 in the city of Buenos Aires. She was 26 years old at the time of her abduction, a teacher and student of sociology at the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA). At that university she met Julio Santucho, the seventh son of a family of ten siblings, whose most famous member was Mario Roberto Santucho, a key leader of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT) and the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (ERP).

Julio had been a student at a Catholic school and then joined the seminar to become a priest. But when he met Julia, he quitted the religious career.

The couple, who were PRT activists, had two children, who were present when his mother was kidnapped in the house of his sister-in-law, Manuela, where she happened to be with another PRT militant, Alicia Raquel D'Ambra.

Later she was taken to the detention facility known as the “Pozo de Banfield”.

Meanwhile, her mother Nélida began her tireless search. She went as far as Italy, where Julio was, and began with him a series of denunciations of what was happening in Argentina.

Julio had wanted to return to the country when he found out that Cristina had been kidnapped but, he said, the party authorities prevented him from doing so.

"We are not going to lose another Santucho", they told him. By that time, his family had already been decimated by state repression.

Taking into account those kidnapped, murdered and disappeared, the Santuchos lost almost twenty of their relatives.

When Julio was finally reunited with his children in Europe, he told them that his mother "had been taken by the military".

Abuelas followed every step of the process at the National Commission for the Right to Identity (Conadi), the National Genetic Data Bank (BNDG) and the Specialised Unit for Cases of Child Appropriation during State Terrorism (Uficante).