Liliana Delfino

Last updated

Liliana Delfino was an Argentine Marxist militant. She was born in Rosario, province of Santa Fe, Argentina, on June 16, 1944, She was kidnapped on July 19, 1976 in the town of Villa Martelli, province of Buenos Aires. Along with her husband Mario Roberto Santucho, she was among the leaders of ERP, an armed Marxist organization. She was arrested and killed by the military in 1976. Her body was never found.

Her father, Ángel Delfino, was an immigrant from Piedmont, Italy, who had been a soldier in the Italian army during World War I and later sympathized with fascism. Once settled in Argentina, he was a commercial employee, he married Carlina Adelina Jedliczka, a teacher from Cañada de Gómez with whom he had two children: Liliana and Mario.

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jorge Rafael Videla</span> President of Argentina from 1976 to 1981

Jorge Rafael Videla was an Argentine military officer and dictator, Commander in Chief of the Army, member of the Military Junta, and de facto President of Argentina from 29 March 1976 to 29 March 1981. His reign, which was during the time of Operation Condor, was among the most infamous in Latin America during the Cold War due to its high level of human rights abuses and severe economic mismanagement.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">People's Revolutionary Army (Argentina)</span>

The People's Revolutionary Army was the military branch of the communist Workers' Revolutionary Party in Argentina.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carlos Delfino</span> Argentine basketball player (born 1982)

Carlos Francisco Delfino is an Argentine professional basketball player who last played for Victoria Libertas Pesaro of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). Standing at 1.98 m, he plays at the small forward and shooting guard positions. He is also noted for his defense and three point shooting skills.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Workers' Revolutionary Party (Argentina)</span> Political party

The Workers' Revolutionary Party was a Marxist political party in Argentina, mainly active in the 1960s and 1970s. Currently there are different groups that claim to be a continuation of the historical PRT.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dominique Sanda</span> French actress

Dominique Marie-Françoise Renée Varaigne, professionally known as Dominique Sanda, is a French actress.

<i>Variety Lights</i> 1951 Italian film

Variety Lights is a 1951 Italian romantic drama film produced, directed and written by Federico Fellini and Alberto Lattuada and starring Peppino De Filippo, Carla Del Poggio, and Giulietta Masina. The film is about a beautiful and ambitious young woman who joins a traveling troupe of third-rate vaudevillians and inadvertently causes jealousy and emotional crises. A collaboration with Alberto Lattuada in production, direction, and writing, Variety Lights launched Fellini's directorial career. Prior to this film, Fellini worked primarily as a screenwriter, most notably working on Roberto Rossellini’s Rome, Open City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rossana Podestà</span> Italian actress

Rossana Podestà was an Italian actress who worked mainly in Italy from the 1950s to the 1970s.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Operation Independence</span>

Operativo Independencia was a 1975 Argentine military operation in Tucumán Province to crush the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a Guevarist guerrilla group which tried to create a Vietnam-style war front in the northwestern province. It was the first large-scale military operation of the Dirty War.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eleonora Giorgi</span> Italian actress

Eleonora Giorgi is an Italian actress.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liliana Negre de Alonso</span>

Liliana Alonso is an Argentine Justicialist Party (PJ) politician. She was a National Senator representing San Luis Province in the Federal Commitment bloc from 2001 to 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mario Roberto Santucho</span>

Mario Roberto Santucho was an Argentine revolutionary and guerrilla combatant, founder of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores and leader of Argentina's largest Marxist guerrilla group, the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo.

Benito Urteaga was a Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla from Argentina. He was born in 1946 and was killed on 19 July 1976. After Mario Roberto Santucho, he was the second most important person of ERP. He was killed together with Mario Roberto Santucho by military forces in Buenos Aires in 1976.

<i>The Secret in Their Eyes</i> 2009 film by Juan José Campanella

The Secret in Their Eyes is a 2009 Argentine-Spanish crime drama film produced, edited, and directed by Juan José Campanella from a screenplay by Campanella and Eduardo Sacheri, and based on Sacheri's 2005 novel La pregunta de sus ojos. It stars Ricardo Darín, Soledad Villamil, Pablo Rago, Javier Godino, and Guillermo Francella. The film focuses on the relationship between judiciaries Benjamín Espósito (Darín) and Irene Hastings (Villamil) and their investigation into a murder case in 1970s Argentina.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Trelew massacre</span>

The Trelew Massacre was a mass execution of 16 political prisoners, militants of different Peronist and left organizations, in Rawson prison by the military dictatorship of Argentina. The prisoners were recaptured after an escape attempt and subsequently shot down by marines led by Lieutenant Commander Luis Emilio Sosa in a simulated new attempt to escape. The marines forced the prisoners to fake a new escape, then executed them as revenge by the Revolución Argentina for the successful escape of some of their comrades during the initial prison break. The massacre took place in the early hours of 22 August 1972 in the Almirante Marcos A. Zar Airport, an Argentine Navy airbase located near the city of Trelew, Chubut in Patagonia.

Liliana is derived from the Latin word 'lilium' or 'lilion', both mean 'lily' in English. Due to this, the name means "pure" and "innocent". The name is generally found in North America, though it is more common in Italian, Spanish and Portuguese.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Esther Ballestrino</span> Paraguayan biochemist and political activist

Esther Ballestrino was a Paraguayan biochemist and political activist. She is most notable for her connection to the future Pope Francis and her forced disappearance in Argentina by the military dictatorship of the National Reorganization Process (1976–1983). She had helped found Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, which organised protests by the mothers of missing children taken by the authorities.

Santucho is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liliana Schwindt</span> Argentine journalist and politician

María Liliana Schwindt is an Argentine politician who served as a National Deputy elected in Buenos Aires Province on two occasions: she was first elected in 2013, and ran for re-election in 2017, as part of the 1País list, but was not elected. She assumed office in February 2020 in replacement of Felipe Solá. She is a member of the Renewal Front.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Worker's Socialist Party (Argentina)</span> Far-left political party in Argentina

The Worker's Socialist Party was a Trotskyist political party in Argentina.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Liliana Bonfatti</span> Italian actress

Liliana Bonfatti was an Italian film actress.

References