BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Hebe de Bonafini, who became a human rights campaigner when her two sons were arrested and disappeared under Argentina’s military dictatorship, died Sunday, her family and authorities reported.
She became president two years later and led the more radical of two factions of the organization until her death.
Both had been members of leftist militant groups, one of them armed, de Bonafini later said.
But they began gathering every Thursday, walking counterclockwise around a clocktower in the center of the plaza.
Her defense of Kirchner and his wife and successor, Cristina Fernández, sometimes led to friction with other human rights groups who had criticized some of the leftist administration’s policies.