The white scarves in the top right of this graffiti are found all over the city.
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Spanish: Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo) is an association of Argentine mothers whose children were "disappeared" during the Dirty War of the military dictatorship, between 1976-1983. They organized while trying to learn what had happened to their children, and began to march in 1977 at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, in front of the Casa Rosada presidential palace, in public defiance of the government's state terrorism intended to silence all opposition.
No-one was allowed to hold meetings in public when several of them met in the square with white scarves on their heads, to show their solidarity. An official who looked kindly upon them told them that they had to disband or he was going to have to arrest them, but also said that he didn't care what they did, as long as they did not huddle in a group. He said 'You can walk around in circles for all I care' - so that is what they did - and still do on occasion, in large numbers.
Here's the Wiki link, as the story is very interesting and also very tragic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_of_the_Plaza_de_Mayo
The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Spanish: Asociación Madres de Plaza de Mayo) is an association of Argentine mothers whose children were "disappeared" during the Dirty War of the military dictatorship, between 1976-1983. They organized while trying to learn what had happened to their children, and began to march in 1977 at the Plaza de Mayo in Buenos Aires, in front of the Casa Rosada presidential palace, in public defiance of the government's state terrorism intended to silence all opposition.
Here's the Wiki link, as the story is very interesting and also very tragic
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothers_of_the_Plaza_de_Mayo
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