Cecilia Inés Cacabelos De La Flor (25 November 1958; disappeared 11 October 1976) was an Argentine student kidnapped by security forces on 11 October 1976 during the country's last military dictatorship.

Disappearance

Cacabelos was detained at the age of 17 by armed men, along with her brother José, while she was in a coffee shop on the Dorrego and Corrientes streets in

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. Both were later transferred to the clandestine detention center of the

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 serve ...

(ESMA). Her case was mentioned during the final indictment of the

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in 1985 by deputy prosecutor

Luis Moreno Ocampo Luis Moreno OcampoMoreno Ocampo's surnames are often hyphenated in English-language media to mark Moreno as a surname, not a given name. (born 4 June 1952) is an Argentine lawyer who served as the first prosecutor of the International Criminal ...

. On 29 June 2013, a commemorative tile in honor of Cecilia was placed at Avenida Corrientes 6195, in the neighborhood of Chacarita.

References

External links

Cacabelos, Cecilia Ines
ParquedelaMemoria.org.ar. Accessed 18 March 2024.

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