In the 1970s, Argentina was the leader in the "Dirty War," a
violent campaign by authoritarian South American regimes to repress
left-wing groups and any others who were deemed subversive. Over
the course of a decade, Argentina's military rulers tortured and
murdered upwards of 30,000 citizens. Even today, after thirty years
of democratic rule, the horror of that time continues to roil
Argentine society.
Argentina has also been in the vanguard in determining how to
preserve sites of torture, how to remember the "disappeared," and
how to reflect on the causes of the Dirty War. Across the capital
city of Buenos Aires are hundreds of grassroots memorials to the
victims, documenting the scope of the state's reign of terror.
Although many books have been written about this era in Argentina's
history, the original Spanish-language edition of Memories of
Buenos Aires was the first to identify and interpret all of these
sites. It was published by the human rights organization Memoria
Abierta, which used interviews with survivors to help unearth that
painful history.
This translation brings this important work to an
English-speaking audience, offering a comprehensive guidebook to
clandestine sites of horror as well as innovative sites of memory.
The book divides the 48 districts of the city into 9 sectors, and
then proceeds neighborhood-by-neighborhood to offer descriptions of
202 known "sites of state terrorism" and 38 additional places where
people were illegally detained, tortured, and killed by the
government.
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