Argentina’s 1st female president!

Katie Halper December 11, 2007 | 3:09 am EST

Today, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner became Argentina’s first female president. Following the presidency of her husband, Nestor Kirchner, she’s already been compared to Hillary here, and Evita there. She joins Michelle Bachelet, President of Chile, as the only other female President currently in office in Latin America. During her inaugural speech, Fernandez paid homage to some of the most important women; the Mothers and Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, who have fought for human rights, by demanding justice for their children and and grandchildren, killed or “disappeared” during the junta dictatorships that killed 30,000 people during the late 1970s and early 1980s. Over 25 years later, the Mothers and Grandmothers are still active. Using DNA testing, they are reuniting the grown up “the lost children,”– babies who were taken away from their parents and given to other families during the dictatorship– with their relatives.