Sister of American missing in Chile for 23 years vows to continue search

Sister of American missing in Chile for 23 years vows to continue search

By Eduardo Gallardo
ASSOCIATED PRESS

10:58 a.m. January 29, 2008

SANTIAGO, Chile – The sister of an American mathematician who vanished in Chile said Tuesday she's frustrated by stalled efforts to find out what happened to him under the former military dictatorship.
Boris Weisfeiler, a mathematics professor at Pennsylvania State University, was last seen on Jan. 5, 1985, hiking and camping in the mountains in southern Chile

“My faith is fading,” Olga Weisfeiler said in a joint news conference with U.S. Ambassador Paul Simons. “But I need to fight, I need to know.”
Witnesses said her brother was arrested by a military patrol near Colonia Dignidad, or Dignity Colony, a German enclave in southern Chile used as a torture and detention center by the secret police of then-dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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According to an official report, 3,190 people disappeared or were killed for political reasons during Pinochet's rule from 1973 to 1990. Olga Weisfeiler said her brother “was not interested in politics at all.”

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