According to data as of February, there are 75 missing women in democracy and there have already been 11 cases in 2019. Many are young people from vulnerable contexts and could be victims of trafficking
Silvia Fregueiro was never able to celebrate Christmas 1994 with her family. She disappeared two days before, on December 23, in Punta del Este, where she had found work as a domestic worker.
His goal was to save to be able to buy the house where he would live with his son in the future, but that dream was cut short. The last thing we heard about her is that she went for a walk, without her purse and her cigarettes, to see a friend who worked in a bakery.
She barely had time to talk because her friend still had work to do, but she could tell that Silvia was excited, wanting to tell her something. They agreed that they would see each other after her, but once Silvia left the establishment, she was never heard from again. She appeared neither alive nor dead. She was 28 years old.
, told Andrea , he explained in a telephone conversation from France, where he has lived since last year.
From that day on, Silvia’s mother, Ana Yacobazzo, began a tireless search.
day she woke up with a single thought: ‘What am I going to do today to
continue looking for my daughter?’, and only when she knew that she had
contributed a grain of sand did she go home peacefully”
Tuana, director of the NGO El Paso, remembering how Ana approached this
association for help and how she fought for years until she died in
2015.
All those years of searching were also especially difficult
for Silvia’s son, Santiago Canet, who was only 12 years old when his
mother disappeared.
was difficult for me to understand what was happening; It was very
hard, always with uncertainty and helplessness. We wanted to look for
more, but there came a point where everything got stuck. “We didn’t lack
strength, but clues.”
Silvia Fregueiro’s case was full of irregularities from the beginning, since the police lost the first report that was made and they only began to investigate almost two months after her disappearance, so many clues were lost.“Everything started late and we never knew if the police were investigating or not”
lamented Santiago, who does not lose hope of having news about his mother.
Although 25 years have passed and there is no news in this regard, the case is still open.
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Newsessentials Blog 
Posted on May 23, 2024
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