Ana Teresa Diego | |
|---|---|
 Ana Diego in 1972 | |
| Born | (1954-11-05)5 November 1954 Bahía Blanca, Argentina |
| Disappeared | 30 September 1976 |
| Died | 1976(1976-00-00) (aged 21–22) |
| Alma mater | National University of La Plata |
| Occupation | Student |
Ana Teresa Diego (b. 1954 – d. 1976)[1] was an Argentine student ofastronomyforcibly disappeared by themilitary dictatorship of Argentina during theDirty War on 30 September 1976. The asteroid11441 Anadiego now bears her name.[2]
Diego was born in 1954. She graduated from theLa Plata Astronomical Observatory as an undergraduate in the 1970s. In 1975, her father, a mathematician working at theUniversidad Nacional del Sur whom militants remembered as "one of the first professors in whom the Bahian student movement could trust," was killed.[3]
In 1976, Diego was kidnapped and summarily killed by the Military Junta of Argentina in the area of El Bosque de La Plata for her membership in theCommunist Youth Federation (Argentina) [es]. While Diego was leaving the Communist Youth Federation facility in the El Bosque area ofLa 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 cars, she shouted her name for witnesses of the assault, and her apartment was raided by her assailants. On two occasions, Diego was seen in detention at thePozo de Arana [es] and theBrigada de Quilmes, both facilities controlled byRamón Camps.[3][4]
Diego's mother, Zaida Franz, was a founding member of theMothers of the Plaza de Mayo and participated in the first meetings of family members inBahía Blanca of the disappeared and the movement's first Marches of the Mothers inLa Plata.[4]
In the inaugural speech for her second term,Argentine PresidentCristina Fernández de Kirchner remembered Diego and linked her to a photograph of futureBrazilian PresidentDilma 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]
An asteroid,11441 Anadiego, is named after her.