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Montevideo, November 22nd 2024 - 04:37 UTC

Tag: Political “suicides” in Argentina

  • Wednesday, February 11th 2015 - 05:54 UTC

    The New York Times: How Argentina ‘Suicides’ the Truth

    Juan Duarte, older brother of Argentina’s political saint, Eva Perón, committed “suicide” in 1953, nine months after she died at age 33, from cancer.

    By Uki Goñi - Political “suicides” are so common in Argentina that a special word has been invented for them. Ask different people in Buenos Aires today and they may disagree whether the crusading prosecutor Alberto Nisman was murdered or took his own life. But most everyone will concur that Mr. Nisman was “suicided,” the latest victim of a dark-power centrifuge that with sinister regularity spews out dead bodies in this divided nation.