Memories of Buenos Aires
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Memories of Buenos Aires

Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
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eBook - ePub

Memories of Buenos Aires

Signs of State Terrorism in Argentina

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Introduction to the English-Language Edition by Max Page
  6. Introduction
  7. How to Use This Book
  8. SECTOR 1. Montserrat, Puerto Madero, Retiro, and San NicholĂĄs
  9. SECTOR 2. Palermo and Recoleta
  10. SECTOR 3. Almagro, Balvanera, Boedo, and San Cristobal
  11. SECTOR 4. ConstituciĂłn, Barracas, La Boca, Parque Patricios, Nueva Pompeya, and San Telmo
  12. SECTOR 5. Belgrano, Coghlan, Colegiales, NĂșñez, and Saavedra
  13. SECTOR 6. AgronomĂ­a, Chacarita, Parque Chas, Paternal, Villa Crespo, Villa PueyrredĂłn, Villa Ortuzar, and Villa Urquiza
  14. SECTOR 7. Monte Castro, Villa del Parque, Villa Devoto, Villa General Mitre, Villa Real, and Villa Santa Rita
  15. SECTOR 8. Caballito, Flores, Floresta, Parque Chacabuco, and VĂ©lez Sarsfield
  16. SECTOR 9. Liniers, Mataderos, Parque Avellaneda, Versailles, Villa Lugano, Villa Luro, Villa Riachuelo, and Villa Soldati
  17. Epilogue: Via Dolorosa by Ilan Stavans
  18. Police stations as sites of illegal detention
  19. Glossary
  20. Abbreviations
  21. Works Cited
  22. Acknowledgments