Key Highlights
- But in terms of moral stature, Cortiñas towered over Videla and his blood-soaked military junta.
- Nora Irma Morales de Cortiñas, or Norita as she was known, rose to prominence in Argentina under the most tragic of circumstances.
- In April 1977 her eldest son Gustavo disappeared, a fate that thrust him into the ranks of thousands of mostly young men and women seized by agents of the right-wing government.
- Many of those victims of the junta’s campaign of political intimidation and terror were never seen or heard from again.
- Norita, up until then a quiet housewife with no involvement in politics, joined a coterie of mothers who bravely went public with their demand that the government reveal the whereabouts of their missing children.
