Overview

• The death was confirmed by her family and by the Centro Lituano – Argentinos Lietuviu Centras in a Facebook post.
• Usonis was a public accountant who spoke six languages and worked at the AFIP, now ARCA, until retiring.
• Her son Axel, 23, was kidnapped and murdered in March 2004, a crime that spurred a crowd of more than 100,000 at Plaza del Congreso and expedited legislative changes that later faced judicial hurdles.
• In 2006 the Federal Oral Tribunal No. 2 of San Martín convicted Sergio Miño, Carlos Díaz, José Díaz and Martín Peralta for the kidnapping and homicide.
• Her courtroom testimony in 2006—where she described feeling “dead while alive” and asserted broader systemic culpability—became a defining moment of the case’s public memory.