Casa Rosada

This is the "Casa Rosada" ("the Pink House") where the president of Argentina, currently Cristina Kirshner, lives. The government building is located in the Plaza de Mayo where thousands of mothers gathered to protest the "disappearances" of their sons and family members during the military dictatorship in Argentina between the years 1976 to 1983. During this period, known as the "Dirty War," it is estimated that anywhere from 9,000 to 30,000 people "disappeared." Las Madres de la Plaza Mayo held protests against the dictatorship and their violence. To this day, members of the Association for the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo gather on Thursday afternoons to march in commemoration the disappeared and the mothers who opposed the regime. I was there the other day when they were marching around and I got a few photographs. The original mothers dressed with scarves tied around their heads with the names of their missing family members embroidered on the cloth. The image of the head scarf is iconic and can be seen around the city in graffiti art. You can kind of see the bonnet image on the flag that they are waving.