Havana, March 25 (RHC) The President of the Casa de las Americas, Abel Prieto, commemorated today via his Twitter account the legacy of the Argentine writer, journalist and revolutionary Rodolfo Walsh, commemorating 45 years after his assassination in Buenos Aires.
The author pointed out that Walsh’s work helped build the testimony genre. His novels Operación Masacre and Who Killed Rosendo? They were pioneers in this field.
The day before, at a tribute at the Argentine embassy in that capital to mark the Day of Remembrance for that nation’s truth and justice, diplomats, journalists and activists recognized Walsh’s literary practice as a testament to and indictment of the civil-military dictatorship in Argentina, established after the 1976 coup .
Walsh helped found the Prensa Latina agency and managed to decipher the secret messages that revealed United States plans to invade Cuba with Cuban exiles via Playa Girón in April 1961.
The fighter was assassinated by a Navy Mechanics School task force after he circulated a writer’s Open Letter to the Military Junta, a document exposing the human rights abuses and horrors perpetrated by his country’s dictatorship.
His remains, like those of many of the regime’s victims (1976-1983), remain missing. (Source: PL)