When her two sons were abducted in 1977, the housewife became a courageous human rights activist. She later celebrated left-wing dictators and the deaths of thousands of innocent victims of September 11, 2001. And she served the scandal-ridden Kirchner clan.
Hebe de Bonafini in March 2018 at a commemoration event to mark the anniversary of the 1976 military coup.
Few Latin American human rights activists are as controversial in public as Argentinian Hebe de Bonafini, who died on Sunday in La Plata, Buenos Aires province. Her supporters venerate her as a symbol of the fight for human rights, while her opponents see her as the cause of social polarization and the whitewash of political violence.