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On November 21, 2005, Pando participated in a wife's march held in front of the Federal Courts to demand the release of their husbands detained by the new anti-military trials.<ref>[http://www.infobae.com/2005/12/30/230689-bendini-dispuso-el-pase-retiro-obligatorio-rafael-mercado/ Bendini dispuso el pase a retiro obligatorio de Rafael Mercado]</ref>The march would result in the forced retirement of her husband, Major Rafael Pedro Mercado.<ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/768593-pasaron-a-retiro-al-mayor-rafael-mercado Pasaron a retiro al mayor Rafael Mercado]</ref>''"I thought that I lived in a country in a democracy but it is not like that, we are living in a dictatorship"'', she countered on December 29 in a ''Radio Continental'' interview.
On November 21, 2005, Pando participated in a wife's march held in front of the Federal Courts to demand the release of their husbands detained by the new anti-military trials.<ref>[http://www.infobae.com/2005/12/30/230689-bendini-dispuso-el-pase-retiro-obligatorio-rafael-mercado/ Bendini dispuso el pase a retiro obligatorio de Rafael Mercado]</ref>The march would result in the forced retirement of her husband, Major Rafael Pedro Mercado.<ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/768593-pasaron-a-retiro-al-mayor-rafael-mercado Pasaron a retiro al mayor Rafael Mercado]</ref>''"I thought that I lived in a country in a democracy but it is not like that, we are living in a dictatorship"'', she countered on December 29 in a ''Radio Continental'' interview.
In 2010, during the socialist government of [[Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner]], a dozen protesting wives of the detained military and police, chained themselves in for twelve hours at the entrance hall of the Ministry of Defense, demanding a meeting with the Defense Minister [[Nilda Garré]]. The wives of the military detainees would release an official statement explaining their actions to the Argentinian press:{{cquote|Tired of requesting private meetings on repeated occasions, and in the face of the complicit silence of those who have the duty to preserve our military institutions, the AFyAPPA group demonstrates its firm decision to remain chained inside the military headquarters until the requested meeting takes place.<ref>[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1291045-pando-encadenada-en-defensa Pando, encadenada en Defensa]</ref>}}
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