He hears that there may be more than one survivor. December 1956: high school dropout, sometime journalist, detective story writer, studiedly unpoliticized chess aficionado Rodolfo Walsh learns by chance that one of the executed civilians is alive. June 1956: eighteen people are reported dead in a "secret" execution, a failed uprising. Argentina has just lost its charasmatic president Juan Peron in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land. “Finally, this classic of Latin American literature is available in English! Walsh not only exposes a terrible crime with precise and haunting prose, but establishes, many years before Capote and Mailer, a whole new genre of personal investigative journalism that transcends its immediate circumstances.”īuenos Aires, 1956. Originally published in 1957, Operation Massacre thoroughly and breathlessly recounts the night of the execution and its fallout. 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. And right there, the monumental classic Operation Massacre is born. He hears that there may be more than one survivor and believes this unbelievable story on the spot. 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.
June 1956: eighteen people are reported dead in a failed Peronist uprising. Argentina has just lost its charismatic president Juán Perón in a military coup, and terror reigns across the land.
It is also frighteningly human.”- Times of Londonġ956. “.brave, committed, dangerous journalism with more than a hint of polemic. A chilling, lucid work, beautifully translated by Gitlin, which serves as a great example of journalistic integrity."- Kirkus Starred Review "A mesmerizing, prophetic tour de force of investigative journalism exposing the pervasive thuggishness of the Argentine military elite.
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