Biography
Gladys Marin
July 16, 1941 - March 6, 2005
Lifelong Chilean activist and defender of human rights. Gladys Marin became politically active at an early age. While at teaching college she joined the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh). After the CIA sponsored military coup d'etat of September 11, 1973, Marín was forced into exile under the dictatorship which was also responsible for the death of her husband. Gladys was the Secretary-General of the Communist Party of Chile (PCCh) from 1994-2002 and afterwards was the president of the PCCh until her death. Gladys was a staunch opponent of Augusto Pinochet and his cronies and was the first to file a lawsuit against him for the thousands of human rights violations committed during his seventeen-year dictatorship.
