In a message posted on the social network X, the Cuban president emphasized that Almeida’s example, “a tireless fighter for the rights and dignity of the Argentine people, will endure in our memory.”

  Taty Almeida, whose full name was Lidia Stella Mercedes Miy Uranga de Almeida, joined the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo in 1979 after the disappearance of her son Alejandro, which occurred in 1975 at the hands of a paramilitary group a few months before the start of the last civic-military dictatorship in Argentina (1976-1983).

  Known for her motto “the only fight that is lost is the one that is abandoned,” Almeida maintained an intense activism in defense of human rights, memory, truth, and justice for almost half a century.

  Last April, upon receiving an honorary doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires, she said before hundreds of students: “You are the ones who will continue fighting for memory, for truth, and for justice. The struggle does not end; the struggle continues.”

“All the Mothers are in me. The mothers who are still here, those who are no longer here, but who will always continue to be,” she said at the time.

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