Elena Holmberg

Elena Holmberg
Born
Elena Angélica Dolores Holmberg Lanusse

(1931-05-24)24 May 1931
Disappeared20 December 1978 (aged 47)
Buenos Aires, Argentina
OccupationDiplomat

Elena Angélica Dolores Holmberg Lanusse (24 May 1931 – disappeared 20 December 1978), better known as Elena Holmberg, was an Argentine diplomat who was kidnapped and assassinated in 1978. Distinguished for being the first woman to graduate from the Institute of Foreign Services of the Nation, Holmberg was an important official of the military dictatorship which took power in 1976, and is generally believed to have been detained-disappeared and then killed by the regime to which she belonged.[1][2][3][4]

  1. ^ Basconi, Andrea (1 June 2012). Elena Holmberg. La mujer que sabía demasiado: El crimen que desnuda la interna de la dictadura militar [Elena Holmberg. The Woman Who Knew Too Much: The Crime that Lays Bare the Infighting of the Military Dictatorship] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial. ISBN 9789500739238. Retrieved 27 December 2018 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ "La diplomática Elena Holmberg y el publicista Marcelo Dupont". Nunca Más (in Spanish). National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons. Archived from the original on 12 August 2018. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  3. ^ "Por qué asesinaron a Elena Holmberg en 1978" [Why Elena Holmberg was Killed in 1978]. La Nación (in Spanish). 22 February 2001. Archived from the original on 5 August 2017. Retrieved 27 December 2018.
  4. ^ "Caso Nº689: Holmberg Elena Angelica Dolores" (in Spanish). Equipo Nizkor. September 2006. Retrieved 27 December 2018.

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