The life and legacy of a young Argentinian woman whose
disappearance in 1976 haunts those she left behind Marc Raboy
always felt a "subliminal interest" in Argentina. His grandfather
had left his village in Ukraine in 1908 as a young man and spent a
year in Buenos Aires, before returning home, marrying, and then
emigrating to Canada, where Raboy was raised. While planning a trip
of his own to Argentina, Raboy did an Internet search of his
surname there, on the off-chance that he might discover some tie to
his grandfather. In the process he found Alicia Raboy. Her story
immediately seized him and wouldn't let him go. In June 1976,
Alicia, a journalist and member of a militant underground leftwing
group, the Montoneros, was ambushed by a security death squad while
driving with her family in the city of Mendoza. Alicia's partner,
the celebrated poet and fellow Montonero Francisco "Paco" Urondo,
was killed on the spot. Their 11-month-old daughter, Angela, was
taken and placed in an orphanage. Her daughter ultimately was
rescued; Alicia was never heard from again. In Looking for Alicia,
Raboy pursues her story not simply to learn what happened when the
post-Peron government in Argentina turned to state terror, but to
understand what drove Alicia and others to risk their lives to
oppose it. Whatever their distant ancestral kinship, author and
subject were born a month apart, sharing not only a surname but
youthful rebellion, journalistic ambition, and the radical politics
that were a hallmark of the 1960s everywhere. Their destinies
diverged through a combination of choice and circumstance. Using
family archives, interviews with those who knew Alicia, and
transcripts from the 2011 trial of former Argentine security forces
personnel involved in her disappearance, Raboy reassembles Alicia's
story. He supplements his narrative with documents from Argentina's
attempts to deal with the legacy of the military dictatorship, such
as the 1984 report of the National Commission on the Disappearance
of Persons, Nunca Mas ("Never Again"), as well as secret diplomatic
correspondence recently made public through the U.S. State
Department's Argentina Declassification Project. Looking for Alicia
immerses readers in these dark years, which, decades later, cast
their shadow still. It puts an unforgettably human face to the many
thousands who disappeared, those they left behind, and the haunting
power of the memories that bind us all to them.
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