Open Letter From a Writer to the Military Junta

By Walsh, Rodolfo

Book Id: WPLBN0100002777
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Reproduction Date: 03/24/1977

Title:	Open Letter From a Writer to the Military Junta
Author:	Walsh, Rodolfo
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non Fiction, Political Science
Collections:	Authors Community, History
Historic Publication Date:	1977
Publisher:	Self-published

Member Page:	History Is A Weapon .org
Citation APA MLA Chicago Walsh, B. R. (1977). Open Letter From a Writer to the Military Junta. Retrieved from http://www.gutenberg.cc/

Description
The writer and journalist Rodolfo J. Walsh sent this letter, dated March 24, 1977, by post to the editorial departments of local newspapers and to foreign press correspondents. On March 25, 1977, Walsh was kidnapped by a "Work Group" and has been missing ever since. Once the dictatorship of 1976 began, Work Groups (grupos de Larea) were formed to carry out the extermination of any individuals considered enemies of the state. These groups, composed mainly of men with experience in the military, state security, or the police department, were notorious for kidnapping victims, torturing them, killing them, and leaving no trace of their bodies. The letter was not published by any local media, but it gradually came to be distributed abroad. Ever since the letter was reissued in 1984, De la Flor has included it as an Appendix in all reprints of Operation Massacre.