Mirta Macedo

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Mirta Macedo (6 July 1939 - 25 July 2012) was an Uruguayan social worker, writer and human rights activist. She is best known for her writing, some of which focus on her time as a political prisoner in Montevideo. Macedo also worked to expose the torture and sexual abuse that she and other women faced in prison.

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Biography

Macedo was born on July 6, 1939, in Treinta y Tres. [1] Growing up in Treinta y Tres, Macedo felt that there were many problems in the city that needed attention. [2] When she was 20, she moved to Montevideo and started studying at the Escuela de Servicio Social. [2] She also joined the Unión de Jóvenes Comunistas. [2] Macedo became a militant communist. [3] She was also involved in Frente Ampilo (Broad Front). [1]

Macedo was arrested by the Órgano Coordinador de Operaciones Antisubversivas  [ es ] (OCOA) in October of 1975. [3] She was taken with a group of prisoners to one of the military prisons. [2] Between 1975 and 1981, Macedo was held as a political prisoner. [4] During her time in prison, she and the others were tortured in various ways. [2] In her book, Tiempos de ida, tiempos de vuelta (2002), she discusses her time as a prisoner. [4] Her 2005 book, Atando los tiempos: Reflexiones sobre las estrategias de sobrevivencia en el Penal de Punta de Rieles, 1976-1981, describes how women coped with surviving in the Punta de Rieles prison. [5] [6] In 2011, Macedo, along with three other former prisoners, testified on the television show, Esta boca es mía  [ es ] that they had been sexually assaulted in prison. [7] Macedo and the other women held as political prisoners accused and filed a complaint against more than 100 people in the prisons of rape and sexual abuse. [8] [1]

Macedo died on July 24, 2012. [1] The collection of essays, Las Laurencias (2012) compiled by Soledad González Baica and Mariana Risso Fernández, was dedicated to Macedo. [9]

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  2. 1 2 3 4 5 Pagola, Florencia. "Cada uno tenía su mujer". Sala de Redacción (in European Spanish). Archived from the original on 12 November 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-02.
  3. 1 2 Sapriza, Graciela (March 2008). "Palabras y silencios sobre el terrorismo de estado" (PDF). Encuentros Latinoamericanos (in Spanish). 2 (2): 83.
  4. 1 2 Forcinito 2019, p. 148.
  5. Rivero, Elizabeth G. (2016). "Gendered Memories and Visual Recollections". In Gómez, Tania; Bolaños-Fabres, Patricia; Hennessy, Christina Mougoyanni (eds.). Gender in Hispanic Literature and Visual Arts. Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. p. 138. ISBN   9781498521208.
  6. Alzugarat, Alfredo. "Atando los tiempos". Espacio Latino (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  7. Forcinito 2019, p. 154.
  8. Kanopa, Agustín Acevedo (2016-08-25). "Entre "nosotras" y "ellos"". La Diaria (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-02-03.
  9. Forcinito 2019, p. 157.

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