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Luisa Cuesta

Luisa Cuesta

1925–2018

Nationality
Uruguay
Occupation
human rights defender

Maria Luisa Cuesta Vila (26 May 1920 Soriano - 21 November 2018 Montevideo) was an Uruguayan human rights activist.

Incarceration history

Facilities

  1. Infantry Battalion No. 5.
    Dates unknown

Biography

Maria Luisa Cuesta Vila (26 May 1920 Soriano - 21 November 2018 Montevideo) was an Uruguayan human rights activist. She dedicated herself to the search for missing detainees during the Uruguayan military dictatorship. Her son Nebio Melo Cuesta disappeared during that period and is still missing today.

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

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