She drew international attention as a leader of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo but was a polarizing figure at times within Argentina.
Even after the collapse of the junta, Ms. de Bonafini kept up her confrontational style with its democratically elected successors to demand answers and mete out punishment. All the while, she said, threats against her never stopped. In biographer Alejandro Diago’sZeal brought rifts
Yet a plan led by Ms. de Bonafini to build apartments for residents of Buenos Aires slums unraveled in 2011 in a scandal that deeply tarnished her image as a social crusader. , who had been jailed along with his brother Pablo for torturing and killing their parents in 1981. Ms. de Bonafini had befriended Sergio Schoklender in prison over shared human rights issues before his release in 1995.Allegations soon were raised of alleged overcharging by Meldorek and failure to make pension payments for workers. Schoklender, meanwhile, traveled on a private plane and allegedly used company money to buy a Ferrari and yachts — although he claimed he did not own the firm.to Ms.
In 1996, Ms. de Bonafini was beaten by police during a student-led protest over the introduction of university entrance exams. “Never before has blood spilled onto a scarf of the mothers,” Ms. de Bonafini told the New York Times. “If they could have, I believe they would have killed me.”
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