True Crimes: Rodolfo Walsh and the Role of the Intellectual in Latin American Politics

by Eduardo Galeano and Michael McCaughan

Rodolfo Walsh was a writer of crime novels, a tireless investigative journalist who uncovered real political crimes, an instant historian of a turbulent and violent era in Argentinian and Latin American politics. He was in Cuba in 1960, participating in setting up the first revolutionary press service in Latin America, "Prensa Latina", when a coded telex arrived in their offices by mistake. After sleepless nights and with one cryptography manual,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1899365435
• ISBN13: 9781899365432
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: Latin America Bureau (Lab)
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.4"