Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo founder Chicha Mariani finds granddaughter abducted in 1976. [View all]
After an epic search that lasted 39 years, María Isabel "Chicha" Chorobik de Mariani, the founder of the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo, located the granddaughter snatched as an infant during the country's last military dictatorship.
Fundación Anahí, the association created by Mariani, 92, when she left Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo in 1989, confirmed the news Thursday.
Her granddaughter, Clara Anahí, read one of the letters written by Mariani and decided to approach Fundación Anahí because she had doubts about her real identity. Sources told the Herald that the woman, who lives in Córdoba Province, conducted blood tests at a private lab to determine whether she was the baby who had been snatched from Diana Teruggi’s arms in 1976. A judicial filing will be made on Monday.
Diana, Chicha’s daughter-in-law, was killed when the military launched an atack on the house where she lived in the city of La Plata on November 24, 1976. Her son, Daniel Mariani, was killed in 1977. Both were members of Montoneros, the Peronist left-wing armed group. At the time, several dictatorship officials told Mariani that her granddaughter had been killed in the attack. She refused to believe them, however, and continued what many had told her was a pointless search.
“Many people know what happened to Clara Anahí, but they have hidden the information. For years, they only told lies: that she was killed, that my son was alive and had taken her to Spain. Horrible and painful lies. The worst thing was that many people believed what (dictatorship-era Buenos Aires Province Police Chief Ramón) Camps said, and did not trust me,” Chicha told the Herald in 2013.
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