Nora Cortiñas of Argentina’s ‘Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo’ dies at 94
Nora Cortiñas, a co-founder of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, died at the age of 94 on May 30.
News Center- Nora Cortiñas, a co-founder of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, died in Buenos Aires on Thursday, at the age of 94.
Nora Cortiñas, the symbol of memory, truth and justice against the military dictatorship by Jorge Rafael Videla, also supported the Kurdish Freedom Movement.
In March 2019, went to Northern Kurdistan for a second time to visit Leyla Güven and support the hunger strike that started in 2018 to break the isolation imposed on Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. She was always in solidarity with the Kurdish people.
Nora Cortiñas was also one of the signatories of the “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan and political solution to the Kurdish question” campaign launched globally in October 2023.