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Gustavo Carlos Molfino: Brother of Alejandra Molfino, an engineering student at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste (UNNE) and a member of the teachers’ union. She was arrested in May 1976 and taken to Devoto prison, where she remained for a year until she was given the option to leave the country. She went into exile in France. Brother of Miguel Ángel Molfino, a member of the Partido Revolucionario de los Trabajadores (PRT) and a journalist and writer. He was kidnapped in Buenos Aires on May 23, 1979 and held at police station 3. From there he went to the “Coordinación Federal” Clandestine Detention Center (CCD), from where he was transferred to the police station in Resistencia, Chaco, and later to the CCD that operated in the Investigations Brigade, until he was convicted by a court martial and legalized. He was in Unit 9 in La Plata, in Rawson, and in Unit 7 in Resistencia. He was released in December 1983. Brother of Marcela Esther Molfino, a student of the Literature Teacher Training College at UNNE, a member of Peronismo de Base and later of the Juventud Peronista (JP), incorporated into the Montoneros organization. She married Guillermo Amarilla, a student of the National Public Accountant course at UNNE and delegate of the Regional IV of the JP. They were kidnapped in the framework of the Counteroffensive on October 17, 1979: Guillermo in Buenos Aires, and Marcela with the couple that formed Rubén Amarilla and Susana Hedman, plus the five children of the two marriages, in San Antonio de Padua, province of Buenos Aires. The only survivor of the operation was Susana Hedman, the five minors were returned to their relatives after being held in captivity for fifteen days. To date, Marcela, Guillermo and Rubén remain missing. They were seen in the CCD that operated in Campo de Mayo. On November 4, 2009, the Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced the restoration of the identity of the 98th grandson: Martín Amarilla Molfino, the fourth child of Marcela and Guillermo, who was born in the Campo de Mayo Military Hospital. Son of Noemí Esther Gianetti de Molfino, who in 1977 decided to go into exile in Paris, France, where she denounced the imprisonment and kidnapping of her children, participated in the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Commission and collaborated with the Montonero Peronist Movement (MPM). She was kidnapped on June 12, 1980 in Lima, Peru, as part of Plan Condor, along with María Inés Raverta and Julio César Ramírez, militants of the Montoneros organization. She was taken to Bolivia and then to the Campo de Mayo CCD, until July 18 of that year when she was transferred to a hotel in Madrid, Spain, where she was murdered. Gustavo is the brother of Liliana Molfino, a member of the Anti-Imperialist Front for Socialism (FAS), and José Alberto Molfino, who lived in internal exile throughout the dictatorship, in Resistencia, Chaco. Gustavo went into exile with his mother when he was a high school student. He was a member of the MPM and after Noemí's murder he traveled to Nicaragua, where he participated in the Sandinista Revolution. He returned from exile in 1984. Since 1980, he has been a plaintiff in the case for the murder of his mother, who lives in Spain, which has been opened and closed without reaching a resolution. He is also part of the Campo de Mayo Trial Contraofensiva Case family group, where he presented himself as a plaintiff. Currently, Gustavo is dedicated to photography and works in the Chamber of Deputies of the Nation.