This Thursday, 24 March, Argentina commemorates 46 years from the beginning of its worst dictatorship. That day, a coup d'état came in the midst of political and social upheaval in a country riven by power struggles and competing interests.

The Golpe, as this moment went down in History, was the last in a series of events that began in the 1930s, when elites started to think in Argentina that democracies did not "work" and should be replaced by the order and structure the military could provide.

During the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), the doctrine of the so-called Condor Plan was applied. The latter was conceived by the US to quash the advance of socialism and communism in Latin America. This involved the systematic application of state terrorism and the annulment of all constitutional guarantees.

From that period 30,000 people remain missing. Disappeared. There were death flights. Thousands had to go into exile, to escape persecution. Traces that our children and grandchildren still carry as part of our stories, which are those of a whole country. Today more than ever, when in Argentina the role of women is vindicated, RAE Argentina to the World wishes to pay homage to the Mothers and Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.

They were women who in the most absolute solitude faced the regime during its worst years, challenging a dictatorship that had no hesitation in persecuting and killing them, like they did with founding mother Azucena Villaflor. She was captured, tortured and dropped alive from a plane over the Rio de la Plata.

These were the Mothers who, during the celebrations of World Cup 78, stood up in front of the foreign press to ask for their children. Their words were: "We don't know if they are hungry, cold. We don't know where they are. To thousands of them we owe courage and honesty. We owe them real democracy. We owe them justice and fairness".

This year, following two years of pandemic and social isolation, there will be a new rally in the squares and streets of every city in Argentina. The central event will take place in the city of Buenos Aires, in Plaza de Mayo.