\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t Mother of Plaza de Mayo Visitaci\u00f3n Folgueiras de Loyola passed away on Sunday at 101 after suffering a stroke a week ago, the Asociaci\u00f3n Madres de Plaza de Mayo announced in a statement.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cShe will be with us forever in Plaza de Mayo. She will continue to be our role model. Not one step back!\u201d read the communiqu\u00e9 published on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Buenos Aires Province Governor Axel Kicillof also paid his respects, bidding a \u201cvery sad\u201d farewell to Visitaci\u00f3n while adding that the Mothers leave a \u201cmandate\u201d to continue \u201cfighting.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOur responsibility is to never lower our arms,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n
Despedimos a Visitaci\u00f3n con mucha tristeza.<\/p>\n
El mandato que nos dejan las Madres es luchar. Nuestra responsabilidad es no bajar los brazos \ud83e\udd0d pic.twitter.com\/xRGM0550o4<\/p>\n
\u2014 Axel Kicillof (@Kicillofok) April 19, 2026 The life of Visitaci\u00f3n Folgueiras de Loyola<\/p>\n
Visitaci\u00f3n Folgueiras was born in Spain in 1924 and later immigrated to Argentina. She met her husband Mario Loyola while working at textile factory Grandes F\u00e1bricas Argentinas (GRAFA) and had two children, Roberto and N\u00e9stor.<\/p>\n
The Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) was raging when Roberto Mario Loyola, who was 22 at the time, was kidnapped in December 1976 alongside his wife Dominga \u201cSandi\u201d Maizano (21) from the home they shared in Loma Hermosa, Buenos Aires province. They had one child.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The disappearance of her son launched Visitaci\u00f3n on a desperate quest. After searching everywhere for him, she began presenting habeas petitions in different institutions. It was during this process that she met other women suffering her same fate, an encounter that would lead to her joining the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo.<\/p>\n
Visitaci\u00f3n de Loyola (left) and Carmen Arias, president of the Asociaci\u00f3n Madres de Plaza de Mayo. Born in April 1977, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo are a human rights group created by a group of women who were searching for their sons and daughters, who had been disappeared by the dictatorship.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In an interview with the Mothers\u2019 radio station published in Argentine outlet P\u00e1gina 12, Visitaci\u00f3n credited the human rights groups with \u201copening her eyes.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cThey taught me everything I didn\u2019t know,\u201d she added.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Despite her advanced age, Visitaci\u00f3n remained very active until the end. A representative from the Asociaci\u00f3n Madres de Plaza de Mayo told the Herald that, even though she couldn\u2019t make it to Plaza de Mayo on March 24, she attended the organization\u2019s headquarters to be a part of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the 1976 coup.<\/p>\n
All pictures courtesy of Asociaci\u00f3n Madres de Plaza de Mayo press team<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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