Diana Arón

Diana Frida Arón Svigilisky (February 15, 1950 – January 20, 1975) was a Chilean journalist[1] and a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria.[2] She was kidnapped, tortured and forcibly disappeared by agents of the Pinochet dictatorship.

Diana Arón
Born
Diana Frida Arón Svigilisky

(1950-02-15)February 15, 1950
Santiago, Chile
DisappearedNovember 18, 1974
Villa Grimaldi, Santiago, Chile
StatusPresumed dead
January 20, 1975
NationalityChilean
Occupation(s)journalist
political activist
PartnerLuis Muñoz González

Biography

She studied at the Hebrew Institute and then journalism at the Catholic University, developed her professional practice on Canal 13, belonging to the same university. After graduating, she worked as a reporter for Onda magazine of Editorial Quimantú.[3] Arón was a member of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria and as such she was part of the editorial team of El Rebelde newspaper.

Disappearance

After the 1973 military coup, Arón was forced to go underground. On November 18, 1974, she was arrested by agents of the Dirección de Inteligencia Nacional (DINA) (Chilean secret police) and taken to Villa Grimaldi, where she was tortured by Miguel Krassnoff, who was seen leaving the torture room with bloody hands, screaming "a Marxist, and on top of that, a Jew!".[4] After that, she was forcibly disappeared and her body was never found.[5] According to her partner, Luis Muñoz, who had also been captured and tortured, a Captain of the army informed him that Arón had been killed on January 10, 1975, after trying to escape.

See also

References
  1. "Google Translate". translate.google.com. Retrieved 2019-08-09.
  2. Memoria Viva caso Diana Arón
  3. Editora Quimantu
  4. Guzmán J., Nancy (2000). Romo: Confesiones de un torturador. Grupo Planeta. p. 149. ISBN 9789562472647.
  5. "Caso Aron: Suprema anula amnistía y confirma condena a cúpula DINA". Archived from the original on 2019-07-01. Retrieved 2017-12-23.
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