Ana Teresa Diego

Ana Teresa Diego (1954–1976)[1] was an Argentine student of astronomy forcibly disappeared by the military dictatorship of Argentina during the Dirty War on 30 September 1976. The asteroid 11441 Anadiego now bears her name.[2]

Ana Teresa Diego
Born1954
Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Disappeared30 September 1976 (aged 21–22)
NationalityArgentine
Alma materNational University of La Plata
OccupationStudent

She graduated from the La Plata Astronomical Observatory as an undergraduate in the 1970s. In 1975, her father, a mathematician working at the Universidad Nacional del Sur whom militants remembered as "one of the first professors in whom the Bahian student movement could trust," was killed.[3] Her mother, Zaida Franz, was a founding member of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo and participated in the first meetings of family members in Bahía Blanca of the disappeared and the movement's first Marches of the Mothers in La Plata.[4]

In the inaugural speech for her second term, Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner remembered Diego and linked her to a photograph of future Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's arrest, saying "Today Dilma occupies the chair of one of the most important countries in the world, maybe this young woman [Ana Teresa Diego] could have been sitting in the same place as I am."[5]

Disappearance

Ana Teresa was born in 1954, and was kidnapped and summarily killed by the Military Junta of Argentina in the area of El Bosque de La Plata for her membership in the Communist Youth Federation (Argentina). While Teresa was leaving the Communist Youth Federation facility in the El Bosque area of La Plata at noon, 30 September 1976, she was attacked and abducted by a gang of men that got out of two Fiats without license plates. Before being placed in one of the two cars, she shouted her name for witnesses of the assault, and her apartment was raided by her assailants. On two occasions, Teresa was seen in detention at the Pozo de Arana and the Brigada de Quilmes, both facilities controlled by Ramón Camps.[3][4]

Citations
  1. de Ambrosio, Martín (12 October 2011). "Anadiego y la historia de la desaparecida que citó CFK". Perfil (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 30 December 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  2. "Asteroid named for 'disappeared' Argentine student". boston.com. Radio BBC. 23 December 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2017.
  3. Martínez, Diego (13 April 2012). "Es como que está otra vez en la familia". Página/12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 April 2012.
  4. Dandan, Alejandra (7 February 2012). "Comían mientras yo recibía el tormento". Página/12 (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 February 2012.
  5. "Quién es Ana Teresa Diego, la estudiante desaparecida mencionada por Cristina". La Nación (in Spanish). 10 December 2011. Retrieved 7 February 2012.
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