Elena Quinteros (September 9, 1945, in

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– missing from 1976) was a Uruguayan

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and

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. Quinteros was last seen in the detention center during the civic-military dictatorship of Uruguay. She tried to escape asking for help in the Venezuelan embassy, but she was taken by force. A few days later she was tortured and killed. There was an investigation in the mid-2000s into the disappearance of Quinteros and others. The School Nº 181 changed its name to Elena Quinteros School.Proyecto Memoria de la Resistencia
Archivo dedicado a los detenidos desaparecidos durante la dictadura cívico-miliar

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