Volume 27, Number 8 · May 15, 1980

The Case of General Seregni

By Juan Goytisolo, Translated by Gregory Rabassa

The selective genocide carried out by the Argentine military regime—that mixture of horror story and Kafkaesque nightmare that has affected tens of thousands of people who have been murdered, arrested, tortured, or have 'disappeared'—has turned the attention of the mass media away from what has happened and is still happening in its neighboring country, Uruguay. But the brutality of the methods used by Uruguayan militarists to keep themselves in power emulates, perhaps goes beyond, that of their Argentine colleagues.



Feature, 1784 words

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