一位激进的年轻理想主义者的传记，她改变世界的决心，以及她在1976年的失踪，揭示了阿根廷陷入右翼疯狂的代价和永恒的遗产。
这一切始于一个巧合——马克·拉博伊（Marc Raboy）偶然发现自己与一名年轻的阿根廷左翼记者同姓。1976年，该记者在与家人一起开车时遭到右翼敢死队的伏击。艾丽西亚的伴侣当场被杀，他们的小女儿被带到孤儿院。孩子最终获救，但艾丽西亚再也没有音讯。
在寻找艾丽西亚的过程中，拉博伊讲述她的故事不仅是为了了解阿根廷后佩隆政府转向国家恐怖时发生了什么，而且也是为了了解那些冒着一切风险反对国家恐怖的人的生命。作者和主题的共同点不仅仅是姓氏和远祖关系；他们的生活都以年轻人的叛逆、新闻野心和激进政治为特点，而这正是60年代和70年代的标志。
拉博伊利用家庭档案、对认识她的人的采访、美国国务院最近公布的秘密外交信函，以及对参与艾丽西亚失踪的前阿根廷安全部队人员的审判记录，重新整理了艾丽西亚的故事。通过研究艾丽西亚和他自己不同的选择和环境，他试图发现他们的生活是如何分化的——以及是什么驱使像艾丽西亚这样的人在追求理想的过程中面对死亡。
Looking for Alicia: The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel
The biography of a radical young idealist, her determination to make a difference in the world, and her disappearance in 1976, revealing the human cost and undying legacy of Argentina’s descent into rightwing madness.
It started with a coincidence — when Marc Raboy happened to discover that he shared a surname with a young left-wing Argentinian journalist who in 1976 was ambushed by a right-wing death squad while driving with her family. Alicia’s partner was killed on the spot, and their baby daughter was taken and placed in an orphanage. The child was ultimately rescued, but Alicia was never heard from again.
In Looking for Alicia, Raboy pursues her story not only to learn what happened when the post-Perón government in Argentina turned to state terror but also to understand the lives of those who risked everything to oppose it. Author and subject share more than a surname and a distant ancestral connection; their lives were both marked by youthful rebellion, journalistic ambition, and the radical politics that were a hallmark of the ’60s and ’70s.
Raboy reassembles Alicia’s story using family archives, interviews with those who knew her, secret diplomatic correspondence recently made public by the U.S. State Department, and transcripts from the trial of former Argentine security forces personnel involved in her disappearance. Examining Alicia’s and his own different choices and circumstances, he attempts to discover how their lives diverged — and what drives people like Alicia to face death in the pursuit of their ideals.
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