1. Victoria Analia Donda Perez was born on 1977 and is an Argentine human rights activist and legislator.
11 Facts About Victoria Donda
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Victoria Donda is the first daughter of a "disappeared" person, born in captivity, to become a member of the Argentine National Congress.
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Victoria Donda was the youngest woman to hold that office.
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Victoria Donda was born in 1977, in the clandestine detention center in Buenos Aires while her mother, Maria Hilda Perez "disappeared" for her involvement with leftist groups.
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Victoria Donda is one of approximately 500 children known to have been born to disappeared political prisoners during Argentina's Dirty War, who were kidnapped and registered under false identities.
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Victoria Donda's case is particularly unusual because her paternal uncle, Adolfo Miguel Donda Tigel, was a naval officer who was one of the primary individuals responsible for ESMA, and participated in the imprisonment, torture, and killing of her parents.
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On May 24,2004, when ESMA was converted by the government into a memorial center, Victoria Donda spoke at the ceremony:.
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Victoria Donda became later member of the Freemen of the South Movement.
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Victoria Donda was part of a mob that stormed into the Argentine Congress and vandalized it during the December 2001 riots.
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In 2006, Victoria Donda was elected a councilmember in the municipality of Avellaneda, Buenos Aires Province.
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Victoria Donda resigned from the position in December 2022, shortly before the end of her term, and was temporarily replaced by Undersecretary of Diversity Policies Greta Pena.