by nv1962 | Agosto 24th, 2008
I just finished reading an overwhelming article by Manuel Rivas in El País about Héctor Germán Oesterheld and his being made “disappeared” along with his four daughters by the brutal military junta gripping Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
It is written as a powerful, jolting hybrid of literary prose and informative reflection on a courageous, determined soul, whose audacity to think was ruthlessly terminated by order of official and systemic brutality.
It is also a tragic reminder that there’s a jarring lack of interest, to this day, in the recent history of America. Yes, America: that magic place so easily lost and hidden in one of its constituent elements.
Language, always language. The tragedy is that “discussion on semantics” has been cynically poisoned and devalued into an arrogant insult. And so, the dictatorial scourge of wrongthink is still kept on life support.
Freedom dies killed by language, always language.
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