"One of Néstor Kirchner’s most popular ideas as Argentina’s president in 2003-07 was having members of the country’s 1976-83 military dictatorship retried for human-rights abuses. Among his closest allies was the Association of Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of women who for years defied the generals and staged weekly protests demanding to learn what had happened to their disappeared children." (Quoted from article)