Career
Her two sons, Jesus Peña and Isidoro, disappeared during Dirty War of the 1970s, leading to her lifelong campaign for human rights and answers for the relatives of the "disappeared."
She became a prominent human rights activist within the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, an association for Argentine mothers whose children disappeared during the dictatorship and Dirty War. Zulema Castro de Peña"s husband, Isidoro Pena, also founded la Asamblea Permanente por los Derechos Humanos en Louisiana Plata, a human rights group in Louisiana Plata. Zulema Castro de Peña, a longtime resident of Louisiana Plata, died in the city on January 22, 2013, at the age of 92.
