SOCIAL ACTIVIST

Luisa Cuesta

1920 - 2018

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Maria Luisa Cuesta Vila (26 May 1920 Soriano - 21 November 2018 Montevideo) was an Uruguayan human rights activist. She dedicated herself to the search for missing detainees during the Uruguayan military dictatorship. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luisa Cuesta has received more than 3,893 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Luisa Cuesta is the 626th most popular social activist (down from 207th in 2019), the 262nd most popular biography from Uruguay (down from 26th in 2019) and the most popular Uruguayan Social Activist.

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Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS

Among social activists, Luisa Cuesta ranks 626 out of 840Before her are Mary McLeod Bethune, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, Jón Páll Sigmarsson, Manal al-Sharif, Josefa Francisco, and Ahed Tamimi. After her are Eren Keskin, Maxim Martsinkevich, Yolanda King, Iqbal Masih, Stanislav Markelov, and Elvira Rawson de Dellepiane.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Luisa Cuesta ranks 425Before her are Tony Gaze, Satish Dhawan, Josef Doležal, Wayne Thiebaud, Simon Pimenta, and John O'Connor. After her are Marguerite Higgins, Elliot Richardson, McDonald Bailey, István Szívós, Jimmy Witherspoon, and Sammy Lee. Among people deceased in 2018, Luisa Cuesta ranks 499Before her are Aldo Tarlao, Andrzej Fischer, Peter Masterson, Bassano Staffieri, Antonio Munguía, and Emil Wolf. After her are Saida Gunba, Carla Marangoni, James Dunbar, Alan Geldard, Horace Ashenfelter, and Nikolai Pankin.

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In Uruguay

Among people born in Uruguay, Luisa Cuesta ranks 262 out of 444Before her are Jorge Barrios (1961), Mario Bergara (1937), Baudilio Jáuregui (1945), Gustavo de Simone (1948), Darío Pereyra (1956), and Walter Corbo (1949). After her are Rodolfo Nin Novoa (1948), Daniel Martínez (1957), Rúben Bareño (1944), Walter Gargano (1984), William Jones (1925), and Miguel Seijas (1930).

Among SOCIAL ACTIVISTS In Uruguay

Among social activists born in Uruguay, Luisa Cuesta ranks 1After her are Karina Pankievich (1950).