Bøger af Leila Guerriero

This is a true story, full of edges and shadows, about the human condition. The protagonist is Silvia Labayru, an Argentine woman kidnapped in 1976, during the military dictatorship in her country, due to her membership in the Montoneros organization. She was nineteen years old and pregnant, and she was taken to the Navy Mechanics School, where a clandestine concentration center operated. She was tortured, forced to do slave labor, and repeatedly raped by an officer. Her daughter was born there and had to be given to her grandparents. Three years ago, she denounced sexual abuse by her repressors in the first trial of that type. But her story is much more complex than that of other detainees at that time. Argentine journalist Leila Guerriero began interviewing her in 2021. Over almost two years, she also spoke with her friends, her children, and her companions in captivity and militancy. The result is the portrait of a woman with a labyrinthine story in which love, sex, violence, humor, children, parents, infidelity, politics, friends, moving, and domestic animals come together.

Den anden krig – En fortælling om den argentiske kirkegård på Falklandsøerne. I 1982, efter afslutningen på Falklandskrigen mellem Argentina og Stor­britannien, sendte den britiske hær en officer ved navn Geoffrey Cardozo til øerne for at assistere tropperne. Der blev han mødt af et uventet syn: Ligene af de argentinske soldater lå stadig spredt ud over slagmarken. Efter megen parlamenteren mellem de to regeringer fik Cardozo ordre om at anlægge en kirkegård til de faldne argentinere. Rapporten om hans grundige arbejde blev efterfølgende sendt gennem Internationale Røde Kors til den argentinske regering, som dog hverken offentliggjorde den eller gav de faldnes familier besked. Der gik således flere årtier, før de pårørende fik vished om deres sønners, fædres og brødres skæbne og sidste hvilested. I Den anden krig fortæller Leila Guerriero om anstrengelserne for at overkomme modstanden imod identificering af de faldne ved hjælp af dna­test og genvinde erindringen om en krig, som i mange år var blevet fortrængt på grund af myndighedernes passivitet, den nationale stolthed og diktaturets skygge, der endnu lå over landet.

In 1982, after the war between Argentina and Great Britain over the Falkland Islands, the English army ordered Officer Cardozo to identify the Argentine soldiers who died in that territory and to design a cemetery to bury them. The results of his work reached the Argentine government, which didn't make it public or known to the families of the fallen, so that they remained unidentified. This book recounts recent and successful efforts to restore a memory overshadowed by institutional inaction, nationalist pride, and the shadow of the dictatorship.