Overview
- Cristina Fernández de Kirchner posted a birthday message praising Estela de Carlotto as “indispensable” and shared a photo from Carlotto’s Oct. 21 visit to her residence at San José 1111.
- Carlotto, president of Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, turned 95 on Oct. 22 and remains a prominent figure in the pursuit of memory, truth and justice for dictatorship-era crimes.
- Cristina noted the meeting occurred at the home where she is serving a six-year domiciliary sentence in the Vialidad case, a location from which she has been holding political meetings.
- Peronist leaders including Buenos Aires governor Axel Kicillof, Wado de Pedro, Mariano Recalde and Verónica Magario posted tributes tying Carlotto’s birthday to the National Day of the Right to Identity.
- Coverage highlighted Carlotto’s decades-long work, including the 2014 identification of her grandson after a 36-year search, as tributes rolled in ahead of Argentina’s Oct. 26 legislative calendar.