In 1977, a few years after the Argentine armed forces brutally attacked the young generation of their country. A small group of women began weekly vigils in Buenos Aires' Plaza de Mayo. While carrying pictures of their grown children who were one of the 30,000 young adults who were either killed or abducted by the junta. The women became known as the Las Madres, who walked silently in protest, confronting and demanding their government to tell them about their kids. The government portrayed them as mad women however, the mothers' group grew from 14 to 400 women and garnered international support. Renee unfortunately lost three children to the junta. After the junta lost power the new government of Argentina passed a statue of limitations restricting liability for the disappeared for six years beyond the kidnapping, which created immunity from prosecution. In 186, Renee founded a group called Linea Fundadora to challenge the statute of limitations. Sadly enough she died in 1998, without knowing what happened to her kids.