Matilde Herrera

[6] During the time of state terrorism in Argentina, her three children, José, Valeria, and Martín, and their respective spouses – militants of the People's Revolutionary Army[7] – were kidnapped by the Armed Forces.

Herrera did not lose Tania (the first daughter of Valeria and Pepe who was around one year old) and Antonio (the son of José and Electra); these children were left at police stations and hospitals after the abduction of their parents.

[2][10] Herrera was honored in 2002 by the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires, along with 17 other outstanding Argentine women of the 20th century, including Eva Perón and Alicia Moreau de Justo.

[11] In an official act carried out on 24 March 2010, the actress Florencia Peña read Herrera's poem "Seremos libres" (We Will Be Free) at the Navy Petty-Officers School of Mechanics, one of the main clandestine detention centers during the military dictatorship.

[12] In the Remembrance Park of Buenos Aires, there stands a statue (Sin título; Untitled) by Roberto Aizenberg in honor of Herrera's three disappeared children: José, Valeria, and Martín.