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PRISONER WITHOUT A NAME, CELL WITHOUT A NUMBER by Jacobo Timerman Translated by Toby Talbot Knopf; 164 pages...
...West. In the past two generations, behind a façade of "European" style, the country has degenerated into narcissism. Where some countries have aspirations, the Argentines have dreams. These they inflict upon each other in spasms of nationalism, socialism, Peronism, fascism and pure terrorism. As Jacobo Timerman points out in this harrowing account, violence amounts to a national characteristic in Argentina today...
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number is part memoir, part meditation. Timerman, a Ukrainian Jew whose family moved to Argentina in 1928 to escape the pogroms, was one of Buenos Aires' most influential journalists and newspaper publishers. That placed him dangerously close to the center of events as Argentina imploded in the late '60s and early '70s, during the second coming of Juan Domingo Peron. The country's civil identity virtually disappeared, with "Peronists assassinating Peronists, the military assassinating the military, union members assassinating union members, students other students, policemen other policemen." Ideas were...
...When electric shocks are applied, all that a man feels is that they're ripping apart his flesh. And he howls." Thus Timerman recalls his torture after capture...
...only remaining hope is an uprising organized from the outside. Mere international pressure doesn't suffice, as Carter's and the UN's condemnation of Videla's violation of human rights has shown. The only outcome of the long-standing disapproval was the release of newspaper editor Jacobo Timerman, his imprisonment in his apartment and a profusion of heart-shaped bumper stickers stating "We Argentines Are Human and Right...