Estela Barnes de Carlotto
| Estela Barnes de Carlotto | |
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| Born |
October 22, 1930 Buenos Aires |
| Occupation | President of the Association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo |
| Spouse(s) | Guido Carlotto (d. 2001) |
Enriqueta Estela Barnes de Carlotto (Buenos Aires, born October 22, 1930) is an Argentine human rights activist and president of the association of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. One of her daughters, Laura Estela Carlotto, was kidnapped and missing while pregnant in Buenos Aires, in late 1977. Through stories, she could ascertain that her daughter had given birth to a boy, and that her grandson was appropriated and his identity changed. She searched for him for nearly 36 years, until, on August 5, 2014, after a DNA check voluntarily made by the person concerned, her grandson was identified, and became the 114th in the list of recovered grandchildren.
Carlotto has received several awards for her work with Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo (Abuelas de Plaza de Mayo), including the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights and Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize, awarded by the Unesco.
Enriqueta Estela Barnes was born on October 22, 1930, in Buenos Aires, within a family of English descent. She married Guido Carlotto, an industrial labourer of Italian descent, with whom she had four children. She was an elementary school teacher and a housewife without no public action.
In the 1970s, when ruled the country the civil-military dictatorship self-appointed National Reorganization Process (1976-1983), three of her children were involved in politics: Laura Estela, a student of History at the National University of La Plata, militated in the Peronism, Claudia belonged to the Peronist University Youth and Guido Miguel integrated the student center of his high school. on August 5, 1977, the armed forces kidnapped and tortured her husband, who was freed after payment of 40 million pesos (equivalent to 30 000 dollars at that time).
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