Buenos Aires, November 6 (teleSUR)-- The famous Argentine group, Abuelas (Grandmothers) de Plaza de Mayo, announced on Thursday they found the 118th grandchild forcibly disappeared by the country’s military dictatorship between 1976 and 1983.

The president of the women’s group, Estela de Carlotto, said the missing person is named Martin and is the grandson of Delia Giovanola de Califano, one of the group’s 12 co-founders.

Many children were stolen from mothers who were imprisoned or killed by Argentina’s military junta. The children were adopted by allies of the regime, in part to prevent them from being raised and educated by opponents of the dictatorship.

“Because of our perseverance, our love, of not ever abandoning, the winner today is not only Delia, but also the Grandmothers and society at large. This has been achieved, not only with the will of our people, but with the support of the State. Not with words, but with deeds,” Carlotto said in a press conference.

Martin is the son of Jorge Ogando and Stella Maris Montesano and has been living abroad for the last 15 years. 

The latest finding of a missing grandchild, number 117, was in late August.

Abuelas of Plaza de Mayo was founded in 1977, one year after Argentina’s military dictatorship started to forcibly disappear thousands of civilians, mostly children and pregnant mothers. The group’s activism began April 30 of that year when 14 women occupied Plaza de Mayor, demanding to know the whereabouts of their missing children.

More than three decades later, the group continues the search for more than 500 disappeared children.