"The Call" by Leila Guerriero: Portrait of an Elusive Rebel
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Military dictatorship took hold in Argentina following the coup d'état of March 24, 1976, during which President Isabel Peron was deposed. In front of the Casa Rosada, Argentina's presidential palace, in Buneos Aires. - / AFP
Journalist Leila Guerriero profiles Argentinian activist Silvia Labayru, who was held captive by order of the military dictatorship. A powerful tale about a flamboyant heroine who never wants to be a victim.
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I subscribeGetting closer, moving away, moving away, getting closer again... It does all this, the unclassifiable book that Leila Guerriero devotes to the activist Silvia Labayru, held captive for two years at the Naval Mechanics School (ESMA), the largest of the 700 clandestine detention centers that appeared in Argentina during the military dictatorship (1976-1983). In 500 powerful pages borrowing from investigation, biography, essay and narrative, the perspectives intersect to form a labyrinth around this tragic and proud heroine, at the heart of a drama of which she never wants to be a victim.
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