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2 unusual facts about Tomás Eloy Martínez


Tomás Eloy Martínez

On 22 August he was fired at the behest of the government, whereupon he went to Rawson and the neighboring city of Trelew where he reported the Massacre of Trelew in his book The Passion According to Trelew.

On 15 August 1972 he learned of the uprising of political prisoners in the jail at Rawson, Chubut Province.


La vida por Perón

Similar themes were addressed in the novel Santa Evita by Tomás Eloy Martínez, in which an Army officer is entrusted with the stolen body of Evita Perón, ordered to keep it hidden in order to prevent its becoming a shrine to the Peronist movement.


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