48 -year -old man, identified as stolen by the baby during Argentina

Almost five decades after he was born in a detention center of the era of the dictatorship and snatched his mother, a man of Buenos Aires has become the 140 person identified as one of the hundreds of hundreds of Argentina “Stolen children”.

The DNA tests confirmed the birth identity of the 48 -year -old introduced by the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo activist group on Monday as “Nieto No. 140”.

The group has worked for decades to trace the whereabouts of young women activists who were arrested and “missing” by the Military Dictatorship of Argentina 1976-1983, and now adult babies who carried in captivity.

It is believed that almost 500 babies were taken, many delivered to people without children close to a desired dictatorship of raising them as loyal to the regime.

The identity of “Nieto No. 140” was not revealed at a press conference held by grandmothers to announce the happy progress.

But among those present was his older sister, Adriana Metz Romero, who works with the grandmothers and cried the journalists who could not wait to meet her brother in person.

“Now I know where my brother is!” She said, sitting with a black and white photo of her parents: Graciela Alicia Romero and Raul Eugenio Metz, leftist activists snatched by the authorities in December 1976.

Romero was 24 years old, mother of a one -year -old daughter and five months pregnancy at that time, according to grandmothers.

He gave birth to a son on April 17, 1977 while he was in a clandestine detention center known as “La Escuelita” in the port city of Bahia Blanca.

She was tortured there, according to the testimony of witnesses. Neither Romero nor Metz were heard again.

The grandmothers said that Romero’s lost son was finally found thanks to an anonymous advice.

“We decided to call him to find out if he would accept a DNA test. He agreed, and it was confirmed that he is my brother,” said Metz Romero, who has had initial contact with him through the video call.

She was raised by her grandparents.

Founded in 1977, the grandmothers group takes its name from the Plaza de la Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, where women challenged the dictatorship to maintain protests demanding information about the whereabouts of their loved ones.

The dictatorship during the call “Dirty War” He was known for human rights violations. At least 30,000 people were killed by the army, some left the ocean airplanes after being tortured. Thousands more simply were tortured when the dictatorship pursued “subversives”, real and imagined, and moved to suffocate any dissent.

In 2023, a plane that was used by the Board of Argentina To throw dissident mothers and nuns at his death for heaven, he finally returned to Argentina after being discovered in Florida.

The current libertarian president of Argentina, Javier Milei, claimed the number of deaths of: Dirty War “was lower.

Grandmothers have accused Milei of defining their investigation into their search to cut public spending.

In June, the group went to the Court to demand protections for the National Genetic Data Bank, which helped in this case, but has been largely “paralyzed” by budget cuts, according to grandmothers.

The leader Estela de Carlotto, herself gathered with a grandson lost decades after her pregnant daughter disappeared, made another support of support on Monday.

“Thanks to perseverance and constant work … they (stolen grandchildren) will continue to appear, but the search cannot be done alone,” he said in the “space for memory”, an old torture center turned into a commemorative site in the capital.

“It was the state itself, through the terrorism of the State, which facilitated the kidnapping of these children, so it must now facilitate the search for them,” said the 94 -year -old man.

“These 300 people who still need to be found are part of our society and should be able to exercise their right to identity,” he added.

In 2014, a The Argentine woman met with her grandson who was stolen when he was a baby. The mother of man, a university activist, was executed in a clandestine military prison in August 1978, two months after giving birth.

And in 2010, an Argentine man who was finally kidnapped at birth I met his father After a 33 -year search

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