Writer

4/26/2026

Argentina in the 1950s was a hotbed of internal political turmoil. After the overthrow of President Juan Perón by a military coup in 1955, the country was taken over by Gen. Pedro Arumburu, who was himself the target of an attempted counter-coup less than a year later, one that included members of his own armed forces. However, when some of those military leaders had a last-minute change of heart, they needed to cover their tracks to preserve their reoutations and positions of power, an effort that led to the cold-blooded killing of a group of alleged insurgents. There was just one problem: those victims had no connection to Arumburu’s attempted ouster. And, when word of these murders leaked out through a handful of survivors, it eventually made its way to author/journalist Rodolfo Walsh (