María Soledad IPARRAGUIRRE

On 17 March 2024, shortly before the Day of Commemoration for Truth and Justice on 24 March, the non-fiction publishing house Marea, which specialises in journalism and human rights, faced a troll attack on its Facebook account, which resulted in more than 800 hate messages and comments being posted there. The aim of the attack was to discredit the book Delia, bastion of resistance, written by journalist María Soledad Iparraguirre, about Delia Giovanola (1926-2022), one of the founders of the group ‘Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo’ (Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo – a human rights organisation with the goal of finding the children stolen and illegally adopted during the 1976–1983 Argentine military dictatorship). Most of these messages either defended the last military dictatorship, supported the government of President Javier Milei or contained hate speech against the Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo, and included threats of disappearance or death against the editor or contributors. 

María Soledad Iparraguirre, born in Mar del Plata on 2 April 1975, graduated in Journalism at the Faculty of Social Communication of the National University of La Plata (UNLP). She is an editor at La Pulseada magazine and a contributor to various media and websites such as Socompa, Periodismo de Frontera and Agencia Perycia, Periodismo y Justicia, among others. Delia. Bastion of Resistance is her first book.