Adela Forestello
Argentine professor (1923-2021) · Argentina · On the map · Academics · Died at 98
Adela "Lila" Panelo de Forestello was an Argentine human rights activist and retired mathematics teacher. Forestello was a founding member of the Mothers of the Plaza 25 de Mayo, based in Rosario, Santa Fe Province.
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She joined with other women in Rosario to establish the Mothers of the Plaza 25 de Mayo following the forced disappearance of their children during the Dirty War and military dictatorship from 1976 to 1983. Her daughter, Marta María "Lala" Forestello, was kidnapped on August 19, 1977, and remains missing to this day.