María Isabel Chorobik de Mariani

María Isabel Chicha Chorobik de Mariani ( – ), was an Argentine human rights activist. She was founder and second president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo.

Activity De Mariani was second president of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo. In 1989 she left the association and In 1996 she founded another association called Anahí (in honor of Clara Anahí Mariani who disappeared from Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo. In 2007, the Legislature of the City of Buenos Aires awarded her a diploma of honor for her work on human rights.

Biography

In 1951 de Mariani married bandmaster and violinist Enrique José Mariani (1921–2003), until his death.

During the military dictatorship (1976–1983), on November 24, 1976, the security forces attacked de Mariani's house and her son Daniel Mariani and her daughter-in-law Diana Teruggi, in La Plata. As a result of militia forces of Montoneros attack, her daughter-in-law died, and the militants kidnapped a three months baby, Clara Anahí, and in the following year Maria's son was also murdered by the Montoneros.

Anahí Association In 1989, due to difference between the members of Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, de Mariani left the Association. She later founded a human rights organization called Asociación Anahí (in honor of her missing granddaughter, Clara Anahí Mariani).

Mariani-Teruggi House Diana Teruggi, a student, and Daniel Mariani, a graduate student in economics, in 1975 moved with her only daughter Clara Anahí to la Plata, in a house on Calle 30 de, which also functioned as one of the Montoneros operating houses in that city. The clandestine press of the magazine Evita Montonera were hiding there. On November 24, 1976, the house was attacked for 3 hours by more than one hundred members of the Army and the Buenos Aires City Police. All the adults who were there that day were killed. The others, Diana Teruggi, Roberto Porfidio, Daniel Mendiburu Eliçabe, Juan Carlos Peiris and Alberto Bossio, Clara Anahí Mariani, all were taken alive and kidnapped that day.

The day of the attack Daniel Mariani had left the house for work in Buenos Aires. For about eight months he fought for the organization Montoneros clandestinity.

On August 1, 1977, he was murdered while he was with her fellow militant Laura Carlotto.

On the walls and ceilings of Mariani-Teruggi House, you can still see the impact of the bullets and the blood of the people murdered there. In 1998, the house was recovered and was opened to the public. The same year the house was declared of Municipal Interest and Cultural Heritage of the Province of Buenos Aires in 2000, and also declared of National Interest in 2003, and declared a National Historical Monument in 2004.

The emergence of an alleged granddaughter On December 24, 2015, a lady called Cordovan arrived at the house of the founder of the Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo, stating that she was Clara Anahí Mariani-Teruggi, the disappeared granddaughter of Chicha Mariani. As evidence, a report from the CIGA (Integral Center for Applied Genetics), a private laboratory in the city of Córdoba, signed by a biochemist named Juan Carlos Jaime, affirmed "the existence of a biological link through the paternal route with a probability of 99.9%. However, the lady concealed the fact on June 25, 2015, the National Genetic Data Bank had personally informed her that she had no affiliation with any disappeared person.