Confessions Of An Argentine Dirty Warrior

Follows the retired navy officer author's confessions about his participation in the assassinations of political dissidents during Argentina's "dirty war," in an account that places the volume in a historical context and offers insight into the Argentine war crimes trials. Originally published as The Flight. Reprint.

Auteur

Horacio Verbitsky is Argentina's leading investigative journalist, winner of the 1995 Latin American Studies Association Media Award, and author of a dozen books. He also presides over Argentina's main human rights organization, the Center for Legal and Social Studies. He lives in Buenos Aires.

Texte du rabat

Retired navy officer Adolfo Scilingo was the first man ever to break the Argentine military's pact of silence, stunning his compatriots and the world by openly confessing his participation in the hideous practice of pushing live political dissidents out of airplanes during Argentina's dirty war.
Available for the first time in paperback, with a new introduction by Judge Gabriel Cavallo on the upcoming military trials and a new epilogue by the author, "Confessions of an Argentine Dirty Warrior" includes the complete text of Scilingo's confession in the form of interviews given to Argentina's best-known investigative journalist, Horacio Verbitsky, along with an afterword by Juan Mendez, putting these events in the context of the dirty war.