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María Ponce De Bianco
María Eugenia Ponce de Bianco (6 July 1924 – 17 or 18 December 1977) was an Argentine social activist. She was one of the founders of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an organization which searched for ''desaparecidos'' (victims of forced disappearance during Argentina's Dirty War). She was kidnapped, tortured, and murdered as a result of her involvement with the group. Life María Ponce was born in Tucumán, Argentina. From a young age, she expressed social concerns that led her to join the Communist Party of Argentina. On 24 March 1976, there was a ''coup d'etat'' in Argentina that installed a new regime (the "National Reorganization Process") founded on state terrorism. At that time, Ponce left the Communist Party that had grudgingly given her aid to start participating in the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), collaborating with the relatives of ''desaparecidos'' and participating in the rounds in the Plaza de Mayo that led to the formation of the Mothers of the Pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alfredo Astiz
Alfredo Ignacio Astiz (born 8 November 1951) is a convicted war criminal and former Argentine military commander, intelligence officer, and naval commando who served in the Argentine Navy during the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla during the Proceso de Reorganización Nacional (1976–1983). He was known as ''El Ángel Rubio de la Muerte'' (the "Blond Angel of Death"), and had a reputation as a torturer. He was discharged from the military in 1998 after defending his actions in a press interview. He was a member of GT 3.3.2 (Task Group 3.3.2) based in the Naval Mechanics School ( ESMA) in Buenos Aires during the Dirty War of 1976–1983. The school was adapted as a secret detention and torture center for political prisoners. As many as 5,000 political prisoners were interrogated, tortured and murdered in the ESMA during those years. GT 3.3.2 was involved in some of the 8,961 deaths and other crimes documented by a national commission after the restoration of demo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mar Del Tuyú
Mar del Tuyú is a resort town and administrative seat of La Costa Partido, on the Argentine Atlantic Coast, with access to Provincial Route 11. Overview According to INDEC, the population of Mar del Tuyú was 6,916 in 2001, including (Costa del Este). It is included in a metropolitan area with Santa Teresita, Buenos Aires, Santa Teresita, raising the area's population to 19,950 inhabitants (INDEC, 2001). The town was founded in 1945 by Arturo D'Elías. Upon the designation of the La Costa District in by the military-appointed Governor, Gen. Ibérico Saint Jean, in 1978, Mar del Tuyu was chosen as the county seat to avoid disputes between residents of the county's northernmost town, San Clemente del Tuyú, and the southernmost, Mar de Ajó (both of which are the largest in the district). Special Features of Mar del Tuyú * The Ovals - One of the urban characteristics of Mar del Tuyú, that break the monotony of square blocks with occasional oval-shaped spaces. In these oval ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires Province
Buenos Aires, officially the Buenos Aires Province, is the largest and most populous Provinces of Argentina, Argentine province. It takes its name from the city of Buenos Aires, the capital of the country, which used to be part of the province and the province's capital until it was Federalization of Buenos Aires, federalized in 1880. Since then, in spite of bearing the same name, the province does not include Buenos Aires city, though it does include all other parts of the Greater Buenos Aires metropolitan area. The capital of the province is the city of La Plata, founded in 1882. It is bordered by the provinces of Entre Ríos Province, Entre Ríos to the northeast, Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe to the north, Córdoba Province, Argentina, Córdoba to the northwest, La Pampa Province, La Pampa to the west, Río Negro Province, Río Negro to the south and west and the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires to the northeast. Uruguay is just across the Rio de la Plata to the northeast, and bo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aeroparque
Jorge Newbery Airfield , commonly known as Aeroparque, is an international airport northwest of downtown Buenos Aires, Argentina. The airport covers an area of and is operated by ''Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 S.A.'' It is located along the Río de la Plata, in the Palermo neighbourhood, and serves as the main hub for domestic flights in Argentina and South American destinations. History The airport was originally proposed by Mayor Carlos Noel in 1925. A number of feasibility studies and zoning disputes followed. In 1938, plans were submitted for an island airport connected via causeway to Avenida General Paz (then under construction). A former wetland reclaimed in 1916 from the Río de la Plata and closer to downtown was selected instead, and the facility, designed by Aeronautics Secretariat engineer Víctor Acuña in 1945, was inaugurated in 1947 as ''Aeroparque 17 de Octubre'' ( 17 October Airfield). Initially served by a single runway, it began operations in January 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nunca Más
National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons (Spanish: ', CONADEP) was an Argentine organization created by President Raúl Alfonsín on 15 December 1983, shortly after his inauguration, to investigate the fate of the (victims of forced disappearance) and other human rights violations (see: Dirty War) performed during the military dictatorship known as the National Reorganization Process between 1976 and 1983. The research of the investigation commission was documented in the (Never Again) report, which was a complete summary published as an official report in Spanish, and delivered to Alfonsín on 20 September 1984, which opened the doors to the trial of the military juntas of the dictatorship. CONADEP recorded the forced disappearance of 8,961 persons from 1976 to 1983, although it noted that the actual number could be higher (estimates by human rights organizations usually place it at 30,000 persons). The report also stated that about 600 people were "disappeared" a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Argentine Navy
The Argentine Navy (ARA; ). This forms the basis for the navy's ship prefix "ARA". is the navy of Argentina. It is one of the three branches of the Armed Forces of the Argentine Republic, together with the Argentine Army, Army and the Argentine Air Force, Air Force. The Navy Day#Argentina, Argentine Navy day is celebrated on May 17, anniversary of the victory in 1814 at the action of 14 May 1814, Battle of Montevideo over the Spanish fleet during the Argentine War of Independence, war of Independence. History 1810–1909 The Argentine Navy was created in the aftermath of the May Revolution of May 25, 1810, which started the Argentine War of Independence, war for independence from Spanish Empire, Spain. The navy was first created to support Manuel Belgrano in the Paraguay campaign, but those ships were sunk by ships from Montevideo, and did not take part in that conflict. Renewed conflicts with Montevideo led to the creation of a second fleet, which participated in the capture ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Navy Petty-Officers School
The Higher School of Mechanics of the Navy of Argentina (Spanish: ''Escuela Superior de Mecánica de la Armada'', commonly referred to by its acronym ESMA) has gone through three major transformations throughout its history. Originally ESMA served as an educational facility of the Argentine Navy. The original ESMA was a complex located at 8151 Libertador Avenue, in the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, in the ''barrio'' of Núñez. Additionally, It was the seat of U.T.3.3.2—Unidad de Tareas ( Task Unit) 2 of G.T.3.3 s However, ESMA later operated as an illegal, secret detention center for opponents of the 1976–1983 military dictatorship, described as "subversives" during what was described as the Dirty War. The military took the babies born to mothers imprisoned there, suppressed their true identities, and allowed military families and associates of the regime to illegally adopt them. The Unidad de Tareas ( Task Unit) was responsible for thousands of instances of forced dis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, GaWC 2024 ranking. The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area 16.7 million, making it the List of metropolitan areas, twentieth largest metropolitan area in the world. It is known for its preserved eclecticism, eclectic European #Architecture, architecture and rich culture, cultural life. It is a multiculturalism, multicultural city that is home to multiple ethnic and religious groups, contributing to its culture as well as to the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. This is because since the 19th century, the city, and the country in general, has been a major recipient of millions of Immigration to Argentina, im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
San Cristóbal, Buenos Aires
San Cristóbal is a ''barrio'' or neighbourhood of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− glob .... The Subte Line E goes under the San Juan Avenue. External links San Cristóbal web(Spanish) Neighbourhoods of Buenos Aires {{BuenosAires-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angela Auad
Angela may refer to: People * Angela (given name), a feminine name, includes a list of people with the name * Angela (surname), an Italian surname, includes a list of people with the name * Angela (enslaved woman) (fl. 1619–1625), an African woman in the Colony of Virginia Fiction * Angela (character), in the ''Spawn'' and Marvel universes * Angela (Inheritance), a character in the Inheritance Cycle novels * Angela Martin, a character in ''The Office'' * Angela, a character in the '' Gargoyles'' TV series * Angela, a character in the ''Stranger Things'' TV Series * Angela Bower, a character in the TV show ''Who's the Boss?'' Places * Angela, Montana * Angela Lake, in Volusia County, Florida * Lake Angela, in Lyon Township, Oakland County, Michigan * Lake Angela, the reservoir impounded by the source dam of the South Yuba River * Cape Angela, the northernmost point of Africa Music * angela (band), from Japan * ''Angela'' (album) by José Feliciano, 1976 * "Angela" (Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léonie Duquet
Marie Léonie Duquet, S.M.E. (9 April 1916 – December 1977) was one of two French Religious Sisters, members of the Sisters of the Foreign Missions based in Seysses, France, who were arrested in December 1977 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and "disappeared". Alice Domon, the other French Sister working with Duquet, disappeared a few days later. They are believed to have been murdered by the military regime of Argentine President Jorge Rafael Videla during the Dirty War. Duquet and Domon had been working in poor neighborhoods of Buenos Aires in the 1970s and supported the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, founded in 1977. Despite repeated efforts by France to trace the two Sisters, the Argentine military dictatorship was unresponsive. In 1990 a French court in Paris tried Argentine Captain Alfredo Astiz, known to have arrested Duquet and believed implicated in the "disappearance" of Domon, for kidnapping the two Sisters. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment ''in ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
