![]() ![]() ![]() Operación Masacre has long been recognized as one of the foundational pieces of investigative journalism more than fifty years later, Operation Massacre reaches an English-speaking audience in this clear translation by Daniella Gitlin. Operación Masacre, which Walsh managed to publish piece by piece the following year in the only magazine whose editor was brave enough to run it, is the story of the seven survivors, the events of the night, and Walsh’s quest for truth and justice as his belief in even the possibility of those values turns more and more to ruins. The following year, journalist Rodolfo Walsh published the incredible story of that night’s execution, which, as it turned out, was botched. That night, amid a series of actions that popped and fizzled around the city like scattered fireworks, police forces collected 18 men from an apartment, drove them to a peripheral neighborhood, lined them up, and executed them - sort of. Jin Buenos Aires, a small rebellion tried and failed to reclaim Argentina for ex- (and future) President Juan Perón, nine months after he had been ousted in a coup. ![]()
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