Buenos Aires Herald 
Human rights activist and Mother of Plaza de Mayo Azucena Díaz died on Sunday at the age of 88, the organization confirmed on social media.
“Today, Sunday, September 21st, we woke up to the news that our beloved partner, Azucena Díaz, had moved to a new home and gone to where so many of our Mothers already are,” their statement read.
Born in Tucumán, Díaz joined the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo after her son Manuel Taján was kidnapped and disappeared by the dictatorship. Taján was taken on March 24, 1976 — the very first day of the coup that would disappear over 30,000 people between 1976 and 1983.
“She will always be in Plaza de Mayo, next to Hebe and the 30,000,” read the Mothers’ statement, which evoked the late president of the Association of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, Hebe de Bonafini, who passed away in 2022.
A citizen of La Matanza in the Buenos Aires province, Diaz had been named “Outstanding Human Rights Personality” by the provincial senate in 2024.
Buenos Aires Governor Axel Kicillof expressed his sentiment on X, where he described Díaz as “a symbol of strength, courage and memory.” He also said Díaz was an example of how “we should never desist, not even in the darkest times.”
The Buenos Aires City branch of H.I.J.O.S. — a human rights organization formed by children of the disappeared — also said their goodbyes on social media, and mentioned her son’s union activism in Tucumán.
“Goodbye, Azucena Díaz! She was a member of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. Her son Manuel Taján was disappeared by state terrorism on March 24, 1976 in Tucumán. He was a worker and a union leader at the Concepción sugar mill. We embrace her family.”
In their statement, Mothers of Plaza de Mayo described Azucena as “a very humble mother,” who was “very strong and steadfast in her convictions.”
“That’s how we will remember her,” they added.