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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
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
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