In 1979 , Traba and Rama settled in the Washington , DC area , as Rama was a tenured professor at the University of Maryland . Traba continued to lecture at various universities while preparing a catalog and a book based on the collection of the Art Museum of the Americas of the Organization of American States . In 1982 , when the Ronald Reagan administration denied Traba and Rama permanent residency the couple moved to Paris . They were both killed along with Mexican novelist and playwright Jorge Ibargüengoitia and Peruvian novelist , poet , and political activist Manuel Scorza on 27 November 1983 when Avianca Flight 011 crashed near Madrid-Barajas airport . They were on the plane on their way to Colombia
Avianca Flight 011
Avianca Flight 011
Marta Traba