Maria Ester Gatti born January 13, 1918 in Montevideo, on the street Guaná 2012. Studied Public Primary School in the barrio Cordón, where he lived. When he finished his school years, he entered the University of the women and then to the Institute for Teachers received a teacher with 17 years in 1935.
could not start working in public schools, up to 5 years after refusing to sign a commitment to the dictatorship of Gabriel Terra. In 1948 she married Ramón González Agustín Islands whose marriage was born on April 18, 1953, his only daughter Maria Emilia.
lived much of his life in the neighborhood of Columbus. His daughter Maria Emilia also began his studies of teaching and married Jorge Zaffaroni Castilla in 1973. Pursued by the dictatorship for his political activism in the ROE (Student Workers Resistance), Zaffaroni-Islas marriage must take refuge in Argentina, where part of the foundation of PVP. On March 22, 1975, her granddaughter was born in Argentina Mariana, On 27 September 1976, Maria Emilia, her husband Jorge Zaffaroni and his granddaughter, Mariana, were abducted from Argentina by Uruguayan and Argentine military.
From that moment, Mary Esther, turned their grief into starting fight a battle, facing the first dictatorial power and callousness and complicity of the democratic governments that succeeded the dictatorship. Besides Ibarburu of Recagno Light, Violet Malugani, Maria Elena Gatti Antunes, Irma Hernandez and Milka Prieto, starting the first collective complaints (including to the OAS) of the missing Uruguayans in Argentina, which will lead subsequently to the formation of the group of the Relatives of the Disappeared in Argentina Uruguay.
In 1979 when the brothers Julien located in Valparaiso, Chile, travel to that country, with the possibility that your granddaughter has been taken with them. was an active proponent of the complaints to international bodies and various national and international law courts. Among the many efforts and achieved interviews that made the greatest Gavazzo challenged the dictatorship to claim for his granddaughter, in the same household of this.
Argentina faces the search with the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, where they gathered the information from the alleged missing children. 24 July 1980 her husband died of a heart attack .. In 1983 obtained the first information respecting their granddaughter, to be published in Brazil an interview with Argentine repressor repressor said that another girl would be appropriate. Travel to Brazil with the mother of Jorge Zaffaroni, where he made contacts with human rights organizations and politicians interested in the subject.
subsequently received information about who is the oppressor that his granddaughter would be appropriate, Miguel Angel Furcci, SIDE member of Argentina, giving rise to the filing of the complaint before the courts in Argentina. After a long and irregular transit through Argentine courts of the complaint and asked the justice of precautionary measures, given the flight of the appropriators with Mariana, Paraguay. then travels to Paraguay with Milton Romani, tracking data to locate Mariana.
In 1985, he presented with a group of relatives of missing a criminal complaint with the Uruguayan courts, which do not thrive under the approval by Parliament on December 22, 1986, expiration of the Act. Besides Elisa Michelini Dellepiane, Matilde Rodriguez Gutierrez Ruiz, from January 5, 1987, chairs the National Commission pro-referendum movement looking through the referendum, nullify the law of forfeiture. In this context that culminated in the referendum on April 16, 1989, was a tireless participant in activities throughout the country and internationally.
realize two European tours, one accompanied by light Recagno and another by Sara Mendez. again in 1992 is located Mariana, and her identity is restored and processed appropriators. On April 19, 2007, a member of the commission headed by Mario Benedetti, the Museum of Memory. On 27 March 2008, was appointed by the Departmental Board of Montevideo, illustrious citizen. was a driving force behind the pink vote, in order to achieve the cancellation of the forfeiture law in October 2009.
During one of his last public appearances, Maria Ester stated: "Do not ever lose hope and not the decision to fight." Maintains until the last days of his life a tireless search for her daughter Maria Emilia and all missing.
died on Sunday December 5, 2010, at 92 years old accompanied by her granddaughter Maria in the Residencia San José Millán street where he lived the last years part of the charity project "Ibiray." Like many families, dies without knowing the fate of his daughter. 05/12/2010.
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