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Yessie Macchi

1946–2009

Nationality: Uruguay
Occupation: resistance fighter

Incarceration history

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Cabildo jail
Dates unknown
Cabildo jail
Dates unknown

Related people

Same nationality and era where possible; falls back to shared nationality or era.

Alberto Mariano Fontela Alonso
1947Uruguay
Juan Pablo Errandonea Salvia
1955Uruguay
Vladimir Roslik
1943–1984Uruguay
Vladimir Roslik (c.
Luisa Cuesta
1925–2018Uruguay
Maria Luisa Cuesta Vila (26 May 1920 Soriano - 21 November 2018 Montevideo) was an Uruguayan human rights activist.
Amelia Sanjurjo Casal
1936–1977Uruguay
Alicia Rey Morales
1939Uruguay

External references

Wikidata (Q63068441)