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Irma Flaquer Azurdia
Born	(1938-09-05)5 September 1938 Guatemala City, Guatemala
Disappeared	16 October 1980(1980-10-16) (aged 42)
Status	Unknown
Education	Psychology
Occupation	Journalist
Spouse	Fernando Valle Avizpe
Children	Sergio Valle Flaquer and Fernando Valle Flaquer

Irma Flaquer Azurdia (5 September 1938 - disappeared 16 October 1980) was a Guatemalan psychologist and reporter known for her pointed critiques against the Guatemalan government.

Biography

Born to a Catalan theater producer father, Fernando Flaquer, and Guatemalan opera singer mother, Olga Azurdia, she spent her childhood travelling and living throughout Central and South America. In 1955, she married Fernando Valle Avizpe and later divorced in 1958. That same year (1958) she started a column in the Guatemalan newspaper La Hora, entitled "Lo que otros callan" which she would later transfer over to La Nación in the years 1971 to 1980. She had two sons, Sergio Valle and Fernando Valle.

Disappearance

In 1970, a car bomb was set off as she opened the door, injuring her hand and leaving her deaf in one ear. On October 16, 1980, Irma attended her grandson's fourth birthday party. It was also believed to be a last farewell to her son Fernando, his wife, Mayra Rosales, and her grandson, Fernando, before she left for Nicaragua the next day. While she and Fernando drove back to her apartment, they were stopped a block away from her apartment by two cars surrounding their car. Fernando was shot in the head and Irma cried out for a doctor for her son. She was grabbed and taken away. Her body has not been recovered and it is believed she was executed. She had been the first white, middle-class, professional woman to have been abducted and presumably murdered in Guatemala during that time. Her son, Sergio, who had been sent to live in a kibbutz in Israel in 1970 after the grenade incident, had received menacing, anonymous phone calls in Israel after his mother's disappearance for two years, claiming that she had gone crazy and was living in a basement.

The Inter American Press Association investigated the case of Irma Flaquer as part of its impunity project, and the case was the first that the IAPA brought to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, which ruled that the Guatemalan government was responsible for her disappearance, at the very least by not protecting her as a public figure.

The investigation also led to a book Disappeared, A Journalist Silenced by June Carolyn Erlick (Seal Press, 2004).

References

Comisión de Esclarecimiento Histórico (CEH) (1999). "Guatemala: Memoria del silencio. Caso ilustrativo no. 49 - Desaparicion forzada de Irma Flaquer y ejecucion extrajudicial de Fernando Valle Flaquer". Guatemala: Memoria del silencio (First ed.). Guatemala. ISBN 99922-54-00-9.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
Erlick, June Carolyn (2004). Disappeared. A Journalist Silenced, The Irma Flaquer Story. Emeryville: Seal Press. ISBN 978-1-58005-113-2.

External links

Irma Flaquer Azurdia (Crimes Against Journalists: Impunity Project)

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