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Diego Maradona<br />
“Liberating Revolution” the Air<br />
Force bombed Plaza de Mayo<br />
before ousting Perón.<br />
1983: The Return of & Democracy<br />
The 1976–83 military dictatorship<br />
brutalized Argentina. Left-wing<br />
guerrilla forces were eliminated<br />
and suspected state enemies<br />
arrested, taken to secret torture<br />
camps, and killed. The country’s<br />
defeat in the Falklands War in<br />
1983, saw civilian rule return.<br />
* 1986: World Cup Victory<br />
Argentina’s 1986 World Cup<br />
victory brought glory to a nation<br />
struggling to heal the wounds of<br />
the military dictatorship. It also<br />
produced a national icon: Diego<br />
Maradona (see p58).<br />
( 1992: Israeli Embassy<br />
Bombing<br />
The bombing of the Israeli<br />
Embassy in <strong>Buenos</strong> <strong>Aires</strong> left 29<br />
dead. In another Jewish-targeted<br />
attack in 1994, the bombing of<br />
the Asociación Mutual Israelita<br />
Argentina (AMIA), a Jewish<br />
cultural center, killed 87.<br />
) 2001: December Riots<br />
In the 1990s, Argentina was<br />
crippled by foreign debt and a<br />
meltdown occurred in 2001. Government<br />
restrictions on bank<br />
withdrawals lead to mass riots.<br />
President Fernando de la Rúa<br />
resigned after 27 died.<br />
<strong>Top</strong> <strong>10</strong> Literary<br />
Figures<br />
! Jorge Luis Borges<br />
(1899–1986)<br />
Argentina’s great littérateur<br />
wrote Labyrinths and The<br />
Book of Imaginary Beings.<br />
Adolfo Bioy Casares<br />
@ (1914–99)<br />
A literary giant, his most<br />
famous work is The<br />
Invention of Morel.<br />
£ Victoria Ocampo<br />
(1890–1979)<br />
This 1930s intellectual and<br />
feminist was the founder of<br />
literary journal Sur.<br />
$ Tomás Eloy Martínez<br />
(b. 1934 )<br />
Historical novelist of Saint<br />
Evita and The Perón Novel.<br />
% Julio Cortázar<br />
(1914–84)<br />
This experimental novelist<br />
authored the book Hopscotch.<br />
José Hernández ^ (1834–86)<br />
Author of the epic poem<br />
Martín Fierro.<br />
Domingo Faustino<br />
& Sarmiento (1811–88)<br />
Author of what is considered<br />
to be the first Argentinian<br />
novel – Facundo.<br />
* Manuel Puig<br />
(1932–90)<br />
Author of pop culture novels,<br />
plus Eternal Curse on the<br />
Reader of These Pages.<br />
( Ernesto Sábato<br />
(b. 1911)<br />
Sábato wrote The Tunnel and<br />
also compiled Nunca Más, the<br />
official report into 1976–83<br />
dictatorship abuses.<br />
) Jacobo Timerman<br />
(1923–99)<br />
Prisoner Without a Name, Cell<br />
Without a Number chronicles<br />
Timerman’s own captivity and<br />
torture during the “Dirty War.”<br />
Tour agency Eternautas (see p<strong>10</strong>5) runs stimulating historical<br />
and literary tours (www.eternautas.com)<br />
<strong>Buenos</strong> <strong>Aires</strong>’ <strong>Top</strong> <strong>10</strong> 33
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