In 2008, the National Genetic Data Bank confirmed he was the son of Mercedes del Valle Morales, a 21-year-old farm worker in Tucumán. Mercedes was a militant in the PRT-ERP guerrilla, and was kidnapped in May 1976, when Juan José was a 9-month-old baby. Juan José was raised by the owners of the farm where she worked, as a child of their own. “The mother, Mercedes, worked for the people who appropriated Juan José,” he said. The Grandmothers work with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team and the National Bank of Genetic Data (BNDG, its Spanish acronym), which use DNA analysis to identify the children.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald December 29, 2022 01:32 UTC