Ana Teresa Diego
{{Short description|Argentine astronomy student}}
{{Infobox person
|name = Ana Teresa Diego
|image = Ana Diego.1972.png
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|caption = Ana Diego in 1972
|birth_date = 5 November 1954
|birth_place = Bahía Blanca, Argentina
|disappeared_date = 30 September 1976
|death_date =
|death_place =
|alma_mater = National University of La Plata
|occupation = Student
}}
Ana Teresa Diego (b. 1954 – d. 1976){{cite news|last1=de Ambrosio|first1=Martín|title=Anadiego y la historia de la desaparecida que citó CFK|url=http://www.perfil.com.ar/ediciones/2011/12/edicion_634/contenidos/noticia_0023.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20121230144434/http://www.perfil.com.ar/ediciones/2011/12/edicion_634/contenidos/noticia_0023.html|url-status = dead|archive-date=30 December 2012|accessdate=7 February 2012|work=Perfil|date=12 October 2011|language=es}} 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.{{cite news|title=Asteroid named for 'disappeared' Argentine student|url=http://archive.boston.com/news/science/articles/2011/12/23/asteroid_named_for_disappeared_argentine_student/|accessdate=27 November 2017|work=boston.com|publisher=Radio BBC|date=23 December 2011}}
Background
Diego was born in 1954. 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.{{cite news|last1=Martínez|first1=Diego|title=Es como que está otra vez en la familia|url=http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-191769-2012-04-13.html|accessdate=13 April 2012|work=Página/12|date=13 April 2012|language=es}}
Disappearance
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 the {{Interlanguage link|Communist Youth Federation (Argentina)|es|Federación Juvenil Comunista (Argentina)}}. While Diego 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 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 the {{Interlanguage link|Pozo de Arana|es}} and the Brigada de Quilmes, both facilities controlled by Ramón Camps.{{cite news|last1=Dandan|first1=Alejandra|date=7 February 2012|title=Comían mientras yo recibía el tormento|language=es|work=Página/12|url=http://www.pagina12.com.ar/diario/elpais/1-187089-2012-02-07.html|accessdate=7 February 2012}}
Legacy
Diego's 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.
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."{{cite news|date=10 December 2011|title=Quién es Ana Teresa Diego, la estudiante desaparecida mencionada por Cristina|language=es|work=La Nación|url=http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1431701-quien-es-ana-teresa-diego-la-estudiante-desaparecida-mencionada-por-cristina|accessdate=7 February 2012|archive-date=7 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107194403/http://www.lanacion.com.ar/1431701-quien-es-ana-teresa-diego-la-estudiante-desaparecida-mencionada-por-cristina|url-status=dead}}
An asteroid, 11441 Anadiego, is named after her.
See also
Citations
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Category:1970s missing person cases
Category:20th-century Argentine astronomers
Category:Enforced disappearances in Argentina
Category:Missing Argentine people
Category:Missing person cases in Argentina