María Claudia Falcone
Desaparecido Septiembre 16, 1976
From the Desaparecidos Memory Wall María Claudia was a good girl and generous. She was 16. She was an activist in the Union of Secondary Students (UES) and worked in education and health clinics in the towns. She studied Fine Arts in La Plata. She read and followed Mario Benedetti Sui Generis, and her straight bangs fell over her big blue eyes. She worried about being nice, she liked to dance and had a hippie boyfriend.
She was abducted from the home of her aunt, located on 56th Street No 586 of La Plata, along with her friend, María Clara Ciocchini, during the "Night of the Pencils", during which seven high school students who had protested school vouchers were arrested and disappeared.
She spent time in several clandestine detention centers: Arana; Pozo de Banfield; Pozo de Quilmes; with Chief of Police of the Province of Buenos Aires and Commissioners of 5a., 8a., and 9a. de La Plata and 3a. Valentin Alsina, in Lanús; and the firing range of the Headquarters of the Province of Buenos Aires. There she was tortured and subjected to all kinds of abuse and rape, as a form of torture and cruelty.
María Claudia was last seen, by Pablo Diaz, on the 28th of December that same year in Banfield. She is still disappeared.
Her parents were also subsequently arrested and disappeared twice, though they were both later released.
No.7 EMEM School of Palermo was named by students as a school María Claudia Falcone.