Tabs navigation
Book
True Crimes
Rodolfo Walsh and the Role of the Intellectual in Latin American Politics
Published: 2002
Pages: 340
eBook: 9781909013391
Paperback: 9781899365432
Rodolfo Walsh was a writer of crime novels, a tireless investigative journalist who uncovered real political crimes, an instant historian of a turbulent and violent era in Argentinian and Latin American politics. He was in Cuba in 1960, participating in setting up the first revolutionary press service in Latin America, "Prensa Latina", when a coded telex arrived in their offices by mistake. After sleepless nights and with one cryptography manual, Walsh deciphered the plans for the US invasion of Cuba being planned in Guatemala by the CIA. Walsh was active in the Montonero guerrilla in Argentina, co-ordinating information and intelligence work. In that capacity he made public the existence of ESMA, the Naval Mechanics School which was the main military torture centre. In his own name he wrote an Open Letter to the Military Junta, a year from the coup and a day before his death, denouncing the dirty war. He was gunned down in the streets of Buenos Aires by a military death squad. This is an account of Rudolfo Walsh's life. It includes extended excerpts from his varied writings.
| Acknowledgements | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Foreword: an historian of his own time | |||
| A true crime story | |||
| Introduction | |||
| Rodolfo Walsh in his own words | |||
| 1 Choele-Choel | |||
| Childhood memories, 1937 | |||
| 2 The end of innocence | |||
| Irish boys after a cat | |||
| 3 Earthly responsibilities | |||
| Chiromancy | |||
| 4 Pulp fiction | |||
| The gambler's tale | |||
| Footnote | |||
| 5 Operaci6n Masacre | |||
| Introduction | |||
| 6 The end of airships | |||
| 7 The Cuban revolution | |||
| Stealing a march on the CIA | |||
| Never trust a special correspondent | |||
| Calle de la Amargura numero 303 | |||
| 8 Antiques and short stories | |||
| The news | |||
| The wrath of an individual | |||
| That woman | |||
| 9 True romance | |||
| Diary entries | |||
| 10 The power of the word | |||
| Obfuscations, errors and fantasy in the badly named | |||
| Padilla Case | |||
| Exiles | |||
| Guevara | |||
| 11 Peronist politics | |||
| Neighbourhood by neighbourhood: popular resistance | |||
| 12 No turning back: 1970-1974 | |||
| 13 Walsh and the Montoneros, 1975-1977 | |||
| ANCLA news copy | |||
| ANCLA news copy | |||
| 14 Critical retreat | |||
| Letter to Vicki | |||
| Letter to my friends | |||
| 15 Rodolfo's last bullet | |||
| Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta | |||
| 16 Walsh- alive again | |||
| Rodolfo Walsh, an historian of the present | |||
| Epilogue | |||
| Argentina: key dates | |||
| General bibliography | |||
| Rodolfo Walsh biblio |
You might also like:
