12, 1978, Celiberti was kidnapped by Uruguayan authorities along with Rodríguez and their children, who were 8 and 3 years old at the time. High-level officials in the Uruguayan military had traveled in secret with the consent of the Brazilian military dictatorship to where the couple was staying, in Porto Alegre, the capital of Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state. The kidnapping was widely denounced in the media thanks to a pair of Brazilian journalists who discovered the operation and exposed it in the magazine Veja. Because of the publicity, the abductees managed to avoid being killed—the only ones to avoid such a fate out of the nearly 200 Uruguayan dissidents who were kidnapped abroad in this period. Instead, their kidnapping became an international scandal, which was a problem for the Brazilian and Uruguayan military regimes. The abductees were brought to Uruguay, where Celiberti and Rodríguez were separated from their children, who were sent to live with their grandparents. Celiberti and her partner were imprisoned for five years, during which time they were tortured and not allowed to see their children. She was held once again at Punta de Rieles. Her testimony regarding this period of imprisonment is recorded in the book Mi habitación, mi celda ("My Room, My Cell"), which is based on interviews with the journalist Lucy Garrido. Release and aftermath With the return of democracy to Uruguay in 1984, Celiberti and her partner were released. In 1991, through an initiative of governor Pedro Simon, the state of Rio Grande do Sul officially acknowledged the kidnapping and offered them compensation for its impact. The government of Uruguayan President Luis Alberto Lacalle did the same a year later. Celiberti, along with other women such as Elena Fonseca and Ana María Colucci, created the feminist collective Cotidiano Mujer in 1985. She has continued to teach and organize feminist actions, and she has produced more than a dozen works on feminist subjects. Personal life Though Celiberti and Rodríguez never married, they were lifelong partners and collaborators for over 40 years. He died in 2012, at age 61. Selected works Entre el techo de cristal y el piso pegajoso (editor, 2011) Puede y debe rendir más. Una mirada feminista a la formación docente en Uruguay. (editor, 2011) Diálogos Complejos: la mirada de las mujeres sobre el buen vivir. (editor, 2010) "El diálogo como práctica política" in: Diálogos Complejos: la mirada de las