Argentina: 122nd "Stolen Baby" Recovered After 40 Years

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina - The Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo organization, the human rights organization dedicated to protecting children's rights and finding the true identities of babies stolen during Argentina's last dictatorship (1976-1983), announced that it has found the 122nd 'grandchild,' reuniting the man with his real family 40 years after his birth.

The son of Iris García Soler and Enrique Bustamante, both of whom were kidnapped and disappeared on January 31, 1977 in the northwestern city of Mendoza, was "recovered" this week after his true identity was finally confirmed.

On that date in 1977, when Iris was three months pregnant, she called her parents to tell them that she was coming to visit. Then, she phoned again and strangely said she would not be coming. After that moment, her parents never heard anything about her, her husband or her then-unborn...

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