# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/esther-ballestrino
# Generated: 2026-08-15T04:15:15.914Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/esther-ballestrino"
name: "Esther Ballestrino"
slug: "esther-ballestrino"
description: "Esther Ballestrino de Careaga 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."
tagline: "Paraguayan activist killed (1918–1977)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Esther_Ballestrino_de_Careaga.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
country:
  name: "Argentina"
  isoCode: "AR"
category:
  name: "Activists"
  slug: "activists"
profileType:
  name: "Activist"
  slug: "activist"
birthDate: "1918-01-20"
deathDate: "1977-12-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           49.66
  momentum:             16.33524766690596
  historical:           9.656844
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 235
sources:
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    title: "Баллестрино, Эстер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Ballestrino"
    title: "Esther Ballestrino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Ballestrino"
    title: "Esther Ballestrino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Ballestrino"
    title: "Esther Ballestrino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Ballestrino"
    title: "Esther Ballestrino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Ballestrino"
    title: "Esther Ballestrino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B7%D5%BD%D5%A9%D5%A5%D6%80_%D4%B2%D5%A1%D5%AC%D5%AC%D5%A5%D5%BD%D5%BF%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%B6%D5%B8"
    title: "Էսթեր Բալլեստրինո"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Ballestrino"
    title: "Esther Ballestrino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A8%E3%82%B9%E3%83%86%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%82%B8%E3%82%A7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC%E3%83%8E"
    title: "エステル・バジェストリーノ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Ballestrino_de_Careaga"
    title: "Esther Ballestrino de Careaga"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Ballestrino"
    title: "Esther Ballestrino"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q951326"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump