Elsa Pavón, first Grandmother of Paza de Mayo to recover stolen grandchild, dies

Elsa Pavón, the first member of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo to recover a grandchild stolen during Argentina’s last military dictatorship, died Thursday at 90. The news was announced by the Anahí Association, the human rights organization she led. Pavón was one of the co-founders of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, a group of women — mothers of victims of the dictatorship — who have been searching for their grandchildren, stolen by the military regime, since 1977. She was also president of the Anahí Association, a human rights organization she co-founded in 1996 alongside fellow…