Buenos Aires Herald 
The Argentine human rights movement is mourning the death of Mother of Plaza de Mayo Inés Rigo de Ragni, from Neuquén, and Enriqueta Hernández de Narváez, leader of Mothers and Relatives of the Disappeared in Jujuy. They passed away on Sunday and Monday respectively, both still searching for their sons who were forcibly disappeared by the military dictatorship.
On Sunday, the Neuquén human rights community said their last goodbye to Ragni, who passed away at 96 years old. Ragni was one of the two remaining Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in the province, along with Noemí “Lolín” López Candán de Rigoni.
Together, Ragni and Rigoni led the traditional Thursday marches around the local square like the mothers in Buenos Aires walking around Plaza de Mayo. The rondas were rescheduled to every third Thursday of the month due to their old age. Ragni didn’t attend the last one.
The Neuquén branch of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo announced the passing of “our dear and admirable Inés” with a Facebook post on Sunday evening, saying she left behind a legacy of “47 years of consistent fighting.” Days earlier, they had announced Ragni was hospitalized given she was feeling unwell and dehydrated. “She was an example of how to fight for justice with consistency and strength,” they said
The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo Association lamented her death in a communiqué, as well as the Neuquén Human Rights Assembly, who described her as “an indisputable leader” who “fought all her life, calling for the disappeared to be found alive and demanded answers from the repressors about their whereabouts, only to be met with silence.”
Oscar Ragni, Inés’ husband, had passed away in July. The couple had searched for their son Oscar Alfredo hand in hand since he was forcibly disappeared on December 23, 1976, at 21 years old. Young Oscar was an architecture student at the National University of La Plata, but was kidnapped in Neuquén. His girlfriend, Lidia Amigo, had been abducted the previous day in La Plata. They were both political activists and members of the Peronist University Youth.
De Narváez, who passed away on Monday at the age of 100, was better known as “Queta.” She was the last surviving mother of a desaparecido in Jujuy. She was one of the founders of her organization, leading the fight to bring justice to Jujuy for decades.
Her son, Hugo Antonio Narváez, was an agronomy student at the National University of Tucumán. He was kidnapped on his 23rd birthday, July 17, 1976.
“[Enriqueta], at 100 years old, kept marching, fighting for justice to know the truth about what happened to her child,” said a Facebook post published by the Jujuy branch of Mothers of Plaza de Mayo. “Now she is with her angel, Hugo Antonio, in an eternal embrace.”
“I’ll go on fighting as long as God lets me live. I will carry on mourning my son,” she used to say. “I am the last living mother, but I’ll fight for all the mothers that are gone,” she had promised in an event earlier this year.
The daughter of a dictatorship victim, Laura Fernanda Acosta, also passed away on Saturday at 49 years old due to illness. Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo expressed their “enormous pain” over her death.
Acosta’s father, Lidio Juan, was a political prisoner throughout most of the dictatorship. Her mother, María Dolores Vargas, was abducted along with Acosta — who was a toddler at the time — in 1977. María Dolores remains disappeared.
Shortly after that, three-year-old Acosta was handed by the military to a family who raised her as their own in a process called “appropriation”. Acosta learned about her true identity in 1995 and got to meet her father, who never stopped looking for her and was an active member of Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo.
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