A través del análisis de destacados intelectuales, apoyado en un amplio despliegue de imágenes, mapas, gráficos, infografías y cronologías, este Atlas pretende constituir un aporte a la comprensión de un movimiento que se encuentra en el corazón de los dramas nacionales. Para encontrar la síntesis que permita encauzar las pasiones y construir una patria realmente justa, libre y soberana.
Une nuit de juin 1956, en Argentine, une tentative de coup d’Etat menée par des militaires « progressistes » est étouffée dans l’oeuf. Sur ordre des généraux qui dirigeaient le pays, la police de Buenos Aires arrête une douzaine d’hommes. Accusés d’être des partisans du "golpe", ils sont assassinés dans une décharge de la banlieue. L’opération est si mal exécutée que sept des douze captifs survivent. Rodolfo Walsh était alors journaliste. Il reconstitue cette « opération massacre » dans ses trois composantes : les hommes, les faits, les preuves. Un pied dans la fiction, un autre dans le compte rendu journalistique, Walsh inaugure une forme romanesque qui connaîtra un grand succès avec les romans de Truman Capote "De sang-froid" et de Norman Mailer "Le Chant du bourreau".
A sweeping account of one of the cultural centers of Latin America, Specular City tells the history of Buenos Aires during the interregnum after Juan Perón's fall from power and before his restoration. During those two decades, the city experienced a rapid metamorphosis at the behest of its middle class citizens, who were eager to cast off the working-class imprint left by the Perónists. Laura Podalsky discusses the ways in which the proliferation of skyscrapers, the emergence of car culture, and the diffusion of an emerging revolution in the arts helped transform Buenos Aires, and, in so doing, redefine Argentine collective history.More than a cultural and material history of this city, this book also presents Buenos Aires as a crucible for urban life. Examining its structures through films, literatures, new magazines, advertising and architecture, Specular City reveals the prominent place of Buenos Aires in the massive changes that Latin America underwent for a new, modern definition of itself.
«Hay un fusilado que vive», esta frase oída a finales de 1956 en un café de La Plata puso a Rodolfo Walsh tras la pista de un oscuro asunto de Estado que le cambiaría la vida. En junio de ese año, un fallido intento revolucionario contra el régimen militar que había destituido a Perón un año antes desencadenó una operación clandestina para eliminar a los opositores al régimen. En un basurero de las afueras de la capital, un grupo de civiles fueron fusilados antes incluso de decretarse la ley marcial. Durante semanas corrió el rumor de que alguno de ellos había sobrevivido. Walsh pudo localizar a uno de esos supuestos supervivientes y tras escuchar su testimonio comenzó una arriesgada y obsesiva investigación que desmentiría la versión oficial sobre los hechos y documentó un caso de terrorismo de Estado. El fruto de estos trabajos se publicaría por entregas en el diario Mayoría y muy poco después, en 1957, como libro. Operación Masacre es un largo reportaje que se lee como una novela y supone el hito fundacional del periodismo narrativo en Latinoamérica «Se ha escrito mucho sobre el peronismo, que es la ideología que recorre su obra maestra. Pero la...
This book examines the prominent place a commitment to social justice and equity has occupied in the global history of literary journalism. With international case studies, it explores and theorizes the way literary journalists have addressed inequality and its consequences in their practice. In the process, this volume focuses on the critical attitude the writers of this genre bring to their stories, the immersive reporting they use to gain detailed and intimate knowledge of their subjects, and the array of innovative rhetorical strategies through which they represent those encounters. The contributors explain how these strategies encourage readers to respond to injustices of class, race, indigeneity, gender, mobility, and access to knowledge. Together, they make the case that, throughout its history, literary journalism has proven uniquely well adapted to fusing facts with feeling in a way which makes it a compelling force for social change.
1956. Argentina has just lost its charismatic president Juán Perón in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. June 1956: eighteen people are reported dead in a failed Peronist uprising. December 1956: sometime journalist, crime fiction writer, studiedly unpoliticized chess aficionado Rodolfo Walsh learns by chance that one of the executed civilians from a separate, secret execution in June, is alive. He hears that there may be more than one survivor and believes this unbelievable story on the spot. And right there, the monumental classic Operation Massacre is born. Walsh made it his mission to find not only the survivors but widows, orphans, political refugees, fugitives, alleged informers, and anonymous heroes, in order to determine what happened that night, sending him on a journey that took over the rest of his life. Originally published in 1957, Operation Massacre thoroughly and breathlessly recounts the night of the execution and its fallout.