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Azucena Villaflor was an Argentine human rights activist who fought for the rights of the disappeared during the country's Dirty War. She was born on April 7, 1924 in Buenos Aires Province, Argentina.
Villaflor was a founding member of the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, a group of mothers who protested the disappearance of their children during the Dirty War. She was also a member of the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights, a human rights organization in Argentina.
Villaflor was arrested in 1977 and held in a secret detention center for three months. She was released after international pressure was put on the Argentine government.
Villaflor continued to fight for human rights until her death in 2020. She was awarded the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic in 2008 and the Order of the Liberator General San Martín in 2009.
At the time of her death, Villaflor was 99 years old.
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Who Is Azucena Villaflor's Husband?
Her husband is Pedro De Vincenti
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Villaflor's remains were cremated and her ashes were buried at the foot of the May Pyramid in the center of the Plaza de Mayo, on 8 December 2005, at the end of the 25th Annual Resistance March of the Mothers. Her surviving children chose the place; her daughter Cecilia said it was because "Here [at the Plaza] is where my mother was born to public life and here she must stay forever. She must stay for everyone".
It was not until 2003 that exhumations by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense, EAAF, known also for having found and identified Che Guevara's corpse in Bolivia) identified the bodies of five women who had disappeared in 1977: Villaflor, Esther Ballestrino, María Ponce de Bianco, Angela Auad, and Sister Léonie Duquet. The bodies showed fractures consistent with a fall and impact against a solid surface, which confirmed the hypothesis that the prisoners had been taken in one of the many "death flights" (vuelos de la muerte) recounted by former naval officer Adolfo Scilingo. In these flights, prisoners were drugged, stripped naked and flung out of aircraft flying over the ocean.
A biography of Azucena Villaflor was written by historian Enrique Arrosagaray in 1997 and there is a street with her name.
After six months of fruitless inquiry, Villaflor decided to start a series of demonstrations in order to take her case public. On 30 April 1977, she and thirteen other mothers, including María Adela Gard de Antokoletz, went to Plaza de Mayo in central Buenos Aires, in front of the Casa Rosada government palace, chosen by Villaflor because it was a politically significant spot in the history of Argentina. They decided to march around the Plaza, since the police had ordered them to "circulate", in the sense of not staying. The first march was on a Saturday, and not very visible; the second one took place on a Friday, and from then on, they settled on Thursdays, at about 3:30 p.m. (this schedule is still kept at present).
On 30 November 1976, eight months after the beginning of the military dictatorship that had named itself "National Reorganization Process", one of Villaflor's sons, Néstor, was abducted together with his girlfriend Raquel Mangin. Villaflor started searching for them through the Ministry of Interior and sought support from the military vicar Adolfo Tortolo (though they could only speak with his secretary, Emilio Grasselli). During this search, she met other women also looking for missing relatives.
Azucena started working at age 16 as a telephone secretary in a home appliances company. There she met Pedro De Vincenti, a labor union delegate. She married De Vicenti in 1949, and they had four children.
Azucena Villaflor (7 April 1924 – 10 December 1977) was an Argentine activist and one of the founders of the human rights association Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which looked for desaparecidos (victims of forced disappearance during Argentina's Dirty War).
