Abducted as babies in the 1970s, these Argentines found a way toward their true identity
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Claudia Poblete poses for a photo in front of a mural depicting the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo group, at the former Navy School of Mechanics, known as ESMA, now a human rights museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 22, 2024. Poblete is one of the 133 recovered grandchildren of Argentina. Her biological family found her years after she was abducted as an infant during the countrys military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)A demonstrator paints silhouettes representing the people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship, during a march marking the 48th anniversary of the coup in Buenos Aires. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)Demonstrators carry a banner with photos of people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship during a march commemorating the 48th anniversary of the coup in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)A demonstrator holds a sign reading in Spanish "Never Again" during a march commemorating the anniversary of the 1976 military coup in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Pedro Alejandro Sandoval poses for a photo at his home in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Sandoval is one of the 133 recovered grandchildren of Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Students visit an area known as a "capucha," the Spanish word for hood, at the former Navy School of Mechanics, or ESMA, now a human rights museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 22, 2024. During the military dictatorship ESMA housed an illegal detention center, a place where detainees were hooded and believed to be tortured. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Pedro Alejandro Sandoval holds a photo of his biological mother Liliana Fontana, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Monday, Aug. 7, 2023. Sandoval is one of the 133 recovered grandchildren of Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Claudia Poblete poses for a photo in front of a display of photographs of people disappeared during Argentina's military dictatorship at the Museum of Space for Memory and the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 22, 2024. Poblete is one of the 133 recovered grandchildren of Argentina. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Letters form a question that reads in Spanish: "How was it possible that children were born in this place?", displayed at the former Navy School of Mechanics, known as ESMA, now a human rights museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 22, 2024. Many of the infants born inside ESMA were abducted and illegally adopted, during the countrys military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Claudia Poblete poses for a photo next to an image of herself as an infant and her disappeared mother Marta Gertrudis, at the Museum of Space for Memory and the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 22, 2024. Back in the year 2000, Poblete didnt go by her current name. She was called Mercedes Landa, and before a judge showed her a DNA test result that confirmed her true identity, she was unaware that she was among hundreds of babies who were abducted during the country's military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)A video streams the "Trial of the Juntas," inside a cell of the former Navy School of Mechanics, known as ESMA, now a human rights museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 22, 2024. Until democracy was regained in 1983, at least 30,000 people disappeared during the country's military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)Demonstrators carry a banner with photos of people who disappeared during the 1976-1983 military dictatorship in a march commemorating the 48th anniversary of the coup in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Sunday, March 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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Claudia Poblete poses for a photo in front of a mural depicting the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo group, at the former Navy School of Mechanics, known as ESMA, now a human rights museum, in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, March 22, 2024. Poblete is one of the 133 recovered grandchildren of Argentina. Her biological family found her years after she was abducted as an infant during the countrys military dictatorship. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)
