Argentina's Mothers Move Us On

Journalist Joanne Omang, back in 1976, first wrote about the courageous Argentine mothers who protested repression and demanded  to know the fate of thousands of their disappeared loved ones, including their children. Omang's vigilance to the deeper story as a Washington Post reporter helped create the new language of "los desaparecidos," the disappeared. Returning to Argentina this year, 30 years later, she observed the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo's annual March of Resistance. Her account in The Nation about the slow but determined progress toward human rights is a thoughtful and moving example of what it means to be a womantraveler.