Martha y Maria: Women's Lives, Women's Rights: The Spy Who Captured Eichmann

Monday, March 25, 2019

The Spy Who Captured Eichmann

Rafi Eitan

When I was 12 years old, I knew as much about Adolf Eichmann as I did about Marilyn Monroe.

Eichmann was on trial in 1961 for designing the Nazi plans to deport and exterminate Jewish people.

At our house in Boulder, Colorado, the Rocky Mountain News and the Boulder Camera arrived daily with details on his crimes during the Holocaust.

I probably never heard the name of the Israeli spy who captured Eichmann in Argentina and smuggled him to Israel to face trial. It was Rafi Eitan, who died on March 23 at the age of 92.

Hooray for the work Eitan did!

Read this fascinating obituary in the New York Times by Joseph Berger.

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In memory of Martha Puebla & In honor of Maria Riveros

On a spring night in 2003, Martha Puebla, age 16, was shot in the face while sitting outside her home in Sun Valley, California, near Los Angeles. Her death was ordered by a gang member on trial for a murder she had witnessed.

On July 13, 2008, in San Ignacio, Paraguay, Maria Riveros took her pregnant 16-year-old daughter to the home of an obstetrician and asked her to perform an abortion. The fetus of about 4 mo. was buried outside the home, but there were complications and the next day Maria had to rush her daughter to a hospital, where a hysterectomy was performed. The obstetrician and her daughter, a nurse, were arrested and charged with performing an abortion.

This blog is dedicated to Martha, Maria and all women who courageously negotiate their lives in this world filled with gang warfare and international warfare, poverty and wealth, drug trafficking and addiction, and lack of access to birth control, legal abortion, and other health care.