“Remembering the Disappeared of the Faculty of Medical Sciences: A Tribute to Victims of State Terrorism”

2023-05-13 23:36:00

Copies of these files were delivered to relatives, friends and colleagues of the victims and to human rights organizations in the province.

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The vice rector of the UNCuyo, Gabriel Fidel led the act of recognition of the disappeared from the Faculty of Medicine. Dean Roberto Miatello and Vice Dean Viviana Parra were also present.

In addition, a plaque with the names of the detained-disappeared or murdered persons was installed in a public space of the FCM. The originals of the files will remain publicly exhibited in the library, with the possibility of consulting printed copies in the same place.

The act was headed by the Vice Chancellor Gabriel Fidelhe Dean of Medicine, Roberto Miatello and the vice-dean Viviana Parra. They participated on college choir and the Grupo Coral Viento Sur, made up largely of survivors of clandestine detention centers.

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Mother of the Square  María Teresa D'Amico's mother was at the tribute to her daughter who disappeared from her.  She was very applauded.

Mother of the Square María Teresa D’Amico’s mother was at the tribute to her daughter who disappeared from her. She was very applauded.

The disappeared from the Faculty of Medical Sciences

The faculty itself gave details of the teachers, students, support staff and graduates, who disappeared during the last military dictatorship.

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María Cristina D'Amico, María Silvia Campos Catania and Antonia Adriana Campos de Alcaraz.

María Cristina D’Amico, María Silvia Campos Catania and Antonia Adriana Campos de Alcaraz.

Maria Silvia Campos Catania: She completed her secondary studies at the Tomás Godoy Cruz Normal School, where she graduated as a teacher. In 1971 she entered to study Medicine. She was kidnapped on May 15, 1976, in her house, San José, Guaymallén, when she was 23 years old and was in her sixth year. He told her mother “if you think I’m going to have a plaque on the door, you’re very wrong. Because I want to be a rural doctor, they won’t see me here.”

Antonia Adriana Campos de Alcaraz: He went through high school at the Martín Zapata School of Commerce. In 1974 he entered to study Medicine. The following year she married José Alcaraz, with whom she had a child. She, along with her husband and her son, were kidnapped in Guaymallén on December 6, 1977, in the so-called Escoba Operation1. Martín remained kidnapped for 24 hours with his parents, until his grandparents were able to find him. Adriana and José remain missing.

María Cristina D’Amico Fornés: María Cristina was born in Mendoza on February 8, 1956. She attended the Martín Zapata School of Commerce. In 1974 she began to study Medicine, a career that she studied until her third year. She was a member of the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party. On February 26, 1978, at the age of 22, she was kidnapped in Mar del Plata, when she was with her friend María Elena Farrando.

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María Elena Farrando Jofré, Carlos Rafael Espeche Díaz and Mercedes Salvadora Vega Faliti de Espeche.

María Elena Farrando Jofré, Carlos Rafael Espeche Díaz and Mercedes Salvadora Vega Faliti de Espeche.

Maria Elina Farrando Jofré: María Cristina D’Amico’s classmate at the Martín Zapata Business School, where they met and became friends. Both studied up to the third year of their medical studies at the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the UNCuyo, and were active in the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (PCML). She was 22 years old when she was kidnapped along with her friend, in Mar del Plata, on February 26, 1978.

Carlos Rafael Espeche Diaz: Kidnapped at age 29, in March 1976, in Tucumán. It was possible to identify his remains in the so-called Pozo de Vargas, in Tucumán. He was a professor of the Anatomy Chair of the FCM UNCuyo and head of residents at the Central Hospital of Mendoza. He was active working in popular neighborhoods such as the Espejo neighborhood in Las Heras, together with his wife, Mercedes Salvadora Vega. The health center in that neighborhood is named after him.

Mercedes Salvadora Eva Faliti de Espeche: Disappeared on June 7, 1976. In 1968, when she was twenty years old, she entered the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the UNCuyo, where in September 1974 she obtained her Medical degree.

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Maria Cristina Lillo Monenegro, Gladys Beatriz Sabatino and Maria Agnes Correa Llano.

Maria Cristina Lillo Monenegro, Gladys Beatriz Sabatino and Maria Agnes Correa Llano.

Maria Cristina Lillo Montenegro: Disappeared on June 8, 1976. María Cristina, with her vocation as a doctor and her social sensitivity, participated in vaccination campaigns and taught first aid courses. The young woman helped in deprived neighborhoods such as the Infanta, near the San Martín neighborhood. According to the account of her partner, Oscar Rojas, they both held an office for popular sectors in the Independencia neighborhood, where they attended twice a week.

Luis Rodolfo Morinas Young: Disappeared on November 22, 1975. At the time of his capture, the Chino He was 24 years old and was in his fourth year of Medicine. He was last seen alive at the Eighth Communications Company, and was presumably killed there. He is still missing.

Gladis Beatriz Sabatino: She died in June 1975, at the age of 26, as a fourth-year medical student. After a confusing road accident, she was hospitalized with minor injuries. A doctor told the companion “we have to take some X-rays of her and then we discharge her. Go to the pharmacy across the street and bring me this,” and she handed him a prescription. Gladis’s cousin took between 20 and 30 minutes to run the errand. When she returned to the hospital, they did not let her into the ward. “The patient suddenly decompensated and she died,” they told him.

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Luis Rodolfo Moriñas Young and Olga Inés Roncelli from Saieg.

Luis Rodolfo Moriñas Young and Olga Inés Roncelli from Saieg.

Maria Ines Correa Llano: Disappeared pregnant on September 16, 1976. María Inés studied to be an instrumentalist, worked at the Central Hospital and was a professor at the Faculty of Medical Sciences. Oscar Rojas remembers: “Inesita was from a patrician family. A charming woman and professionally impeccable. She helped me in surgeries at the Central Hospital in the Heart Surgery Service on the fourth floor and in Experimental Surgery at the Faculty”.

Olga Inés Roncelli from Saieg: Disappeared pregnant on September 13, 1977. She taught at three schools: Nuestra Señora del Rosario, in Lavalle, at the Costa de Araujo Agricultural Technical School, and at the Magisterium, where she was kidnapped. She also taught Physics at the pre-university of the Faculty of Medical Sciences of UNCuyo.

Source: Faculty of Medical Sciences of the UNCuyo.

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