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Tomás Eloy Martínez

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where he dealt with the sadness and melancholy of exile and the dire impact on the lives of the families of the "desaparecidos" (people that were kidnapped and presumed dead by the dictatorship known as "El Proceso").
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in New Jersey, although he maintained his collaboration with Latin American newspapers throughout this period, which was the inspiration as well for his last book
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was the only publication in Buenos Aires that reported the correct story of the affair in Rawson, which differed significantly from the official version of the
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and is generally considered an influential and innovative figure in Latin America both as journalist and a novelist. Eloy Martínez obtained a degree in
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The end of the 1990s saw him back in the United States, being entrusted as professor and director of the Latin American studies program at
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Argentine government. On 22 August he was fired at the behest of the government, whereupon he went to Rawson and the neighboring city of
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was shut down by the military authorities who seized power in 1976. After this, he was forced to live in exile (1975–1983) and moved to
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syndicate, and his articles have appeared in many newspapers and journals in Latin America. He was awarded the
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with a prologue by Cristine Mattos, Buenos Aires, Fondo de Cultura Económica de Argentina, S.A., 2006.
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For three years (1972–1975) Eloy Martínez was in charge of the cultural supplement of
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On August 15, 1972 he learned of the uprising of political prisoners in the jail at
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Tomás Eloy Martínez died in Buenos Aires on January 31, 2010, from cancer.
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In 1991, he participated in the creation and launch of the daily newspaper
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Eloy Martínez was also a teacher and lecturer. He wrote columns for
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Official website of the Tomas Eloy Martinez Foundation, in Spanish
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newspaper, and he then was editor in chief of the magazine
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During the year 1984 he moved to the United States to the
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he recounts that he was threatened by the "Triple A", the
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Tomas Eloy Martinez
Spanish name
surname

Argentine
San Miguel de Tucumán
Spanish
Latin American literature
University of Tucumán
University of Paris
Buenos Aires
La Nación
Primera Plana
Paris
Juan Domingo Perón
Madrid
Jacobo Timmerman
Gabriel García Márquez
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Rawson
Chubut Province
Trelew
Massacre of Trelew
La Nación
Caracas
Venezuela
El Diario de Caracas
Alianza Anticomunista Argentina
Susana Rotker
Washington, D.C.

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