"When am I going to see you?  Am I going to see you again?"  And she told me, "No, no Mom, never again . . . "

    This quote is drawn from Maltide Melibovsky's Circle of Love Over Death, Testimonies of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, her report and reflection, with ample testimonies, about the Argentinian government's war against political dissidents in Seventies Latin America.  It is a young woman telling her mother good-bye, forever.  The thought is heartbreaking.

     As the Argentinian dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla grew ever more oppressive, thousands of young people, mostly born in the Fifties, began to "disappear."  They had been protesting the dictatorship.  Without warning, without appeal, these people were abducted by government security forces, tortured terribly, then killed.  Thousands upon thousands.  Their bodies were never found.  In some instances, the security forces threw them, alive, out of an airplane as it traveled over the Atlantic Ocean.

The Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo was a group of women who, upon realizing the government had abducted their children, began to daily march around the street in front of the presidential palace in Buenos Aires.  They demanded answers.  They demanded to know where their children were.  Over time, the Mothers became an international movement, attracting widespread support.  Eventually, some of the members of the junta were brought to trial.  A measure of justice was done.

    Perhaps the worst of this horrific affair is that it was supported by the American government.  Why?  Because the junta opposed Marxism.

    Surely, God's vision of love is bigger than this.