Man becomes 140th 'stolen grandchild' tracked in Argentina

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00:00To a great cheer from the grandmothers, the board is updated to show the number of grandchildren

00:06they've tracked down.

00:08Adriana Metz Romero's brother has just been identified at the age of 48.

00:13I have his phone number and I saved it under the last name Metz Romero.

00:21So well from here on out, it's all a win.

00:25The man, whose identity has not been revealed, was taken after being born to a mother in captivity,

00:31then brought up in another family.

00:33His parents were two left-wing activists who disappeared after their arrest in 1976, at

00:39the start of the Argentine military dictatorship that lasted until 1983.

00:45The 140th stolen grandchild was identified thanks to a DNA test, carried out following

00:50an anonymous tip.

00:52A discovery made possible by the grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo group.

00:58We fight so that the truth is not extinguished.

01:01Welcome grandchild 140.

01:07The group takes its name from the Plaza de Mayo square in Buenos Aires, where women held protests

01:12demanding information on the whereabouts of their snatched family members.

01:17Their relatives are among the 30,000 people killed or disappeared when the junta was in

01:21power, though Argentina's current president, Javier Malay, disputes the figure.

01:27The grandmothers have accused Malay of defunding their research in his quest to slash public

01:31spending, while they estimate that more than 300 now-grown babies have yet to be found.

01:37So thank you very much for joining us today.

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