María Ester Gatti
María Ester Gatti de Islas (born January 13, 1918 in Montevideo , † December 5, 2010 there ) was a Uruguayan human rights activist.
Gatti, born in 1918 on "calle Guaná", married Ramón Agustín Islas González, who died on July 24, 1980 in 1948. She lived most of her life in the Montevidean neighborhood of Colón. In 1985 she was one of the founders of the Association of Relatives of Missing Political Prisoners from Uruguay ("Madres y Familiares de Uruguayos Detenidos Desaparecidos"). The initiative to found this organization arose from the family's own history. Her only daughter María Emilia Islas de Zaffaroni (April 18, 1953-?) Was arrested and abducted by the Uruguayan and Argentine military in Argentina together with her husband Jorge Zaffaroni Castilla and daughter Mariana on September 27, 1976 during the period of dictatorship. Only her granddaughter Mariana Zaffaroni, born on March 22, 1975, who was 18 months old at the time of the kidnapping, reappeared in 1992 as the adopted child of a Uruguayan secret service member. This is based on the French-Uruguayan documentary "Por esos ojos". She continued to fight those with thatLey de Caducidad associated impunity for many crimes committed during the dictatorship and advocated the abolition of this law. Gatti died at the age of 92 in the Residencia San José on "calle Millán".
Awards
- Honorary Citizen ("Ciudadana Ilustre") of Montevideo (2008)
Web links
- "Uruguay: María Ester Gatti dies", Quetzal online magazine of December 6, 2010
- "Murió María Ester Gatti", Observa of December 5, 2010 (Spanish)
- Obituary in the Los Angeles Times (English)
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gatti, María Ester |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gatti de Islas, Maria Ester |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Uruguayan human rights activist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Montevideo , Uruguay |
| DATE OF DEATH | 5th December 2010 |
| Place of death | Montevideo , Uruguay |