La mano izquierda de Dios Tomo 4 La última dictadura 19761983 Historia política de la iglesia católica Spanish Edition eBook Horacio Verbitsky
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«¡Qué bien escrito está este libro! Narra una historia terrible con la
fuerza de la prosa y casi sin adjetivos; no los precisa. Las notas al
pie son un tesoro por sí mismas. Cubren los más estrictos cánones
académicos. Quiero rendir homenaje al valor y al vuelo de este gran
libro. Verbitsky le ha aportado a la historia argentina de manera
fundamental». Guillermo O'Donnell
«No creo que haya otra investigación sobre cualquier otro período de la
vida de la Iglesia Católica que reúna con tanto detalle y minuciosidad
lo que sucedía dentro de la institución más hermética de la Argentina,
más aún que las Fuerzas Armadas». Rosendo Fraga
«Una hazaña literaria, elaborada con talento, paciencia y coraje, en un
país donde los obispos son funcionarios públicos, a sueldo del Estado, y
los dictadores militares reciben la bendición en misa». Eduardo Galeano
«Una obra profunda, imprescindible para conocer las afinidades entre
poder militar y poder católico y comprender a la sociedad argentina y
sus imaginarios en el largo plazo». Fortunato Mallimaci
«Una obra cánon de obligada referencia en cualquier estudio sobre el
tema». Juan Gelman
La mano izquierda de Dios Tomo 4 La última dictadura 19761983 Historia política de la iglesia católica Spanish Edition eBook Horacio Verbitsky
La Mano Izquierda de Dios (The Left Hand of God) continues Vigilia de Armas (see my review). It covers the period 1976 to 1983 of the last military dictatorship in Argentina. In 1976 the Dirty War was raging; it targeted every kind of leftist or progressive, real or suspected and cost many thousands of dead and disappeared. The military and the police were ready. For more than ten years they had learned from French officers responsible for torture and assassination in Algeria and from their US counterparts in the School of the Americas in Panama. The plan the military implanted was not unlike the Phoenix Program in Vietnam; it contemplated the assassination of all "subversives" with any capacity for leadership (including high school students demonstrating for reduced bus fares), the systematic use of torture for obtaining information and the disappearance of victims, so relatives would never know their fate. In other cases, mangled corpses were left in public places to instill fear. The ideological underpinning for these horrors was provided by local prophets of hate, fanatic Catholics that identified the military with Crusaders and denied every right to their adversaries.The military underwent a descensus averni fully shared by the hierarchy of the Church. The latter knew about many disappearances and murders but kept silent; in fact, some priests collaborated with the executioners. Incredibly, the hierarchy also chose to ignore attacks on its own personnel; during the military dictatorship two bishops and almost forty priests were assassinated. Needless to say, no help came from the Vatican, especially after the election of Pope John Paul II in 1978, who entirely subordinated Church policy to the the geopolitical machinations of the US and was intent in suppressing Third World priests and Liberation Theology at any cost.
After the Malvinas/Falklands war the military regime imploded. The Church was active in the coverup of the crimes; compromising documents disappeared, and the hierarchy even tried to offer the dying dictatorship a dignified exit under "forgive and forget" exhortations. They failed; in 1984 a report called Nunca Mas = Never Again began exposing the horrors of the Dirty War and many other accounts appeared later. Still, many of the guilty were able to evade punishment under amnesty laws passed by various governments. These laws were derogated by the regimes of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner and, finally, mass trials began to take place. The credibility of the Church (along with that of the military) is now at its lowest point in history (the same can be said of the Vatican, reeling from its misuse by John Paul II and many other scandals). New details on the Dirty War are surfacing daily, and some involve priests. One intriguing question that this book touches upon is the actuation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) under the military dictatorship and after; Bergoglio was Provincial Superior of the Jesuit Order in Argentina since 1973. Verbitsky has treated this subject in other books such as El Silencio (The Silence, 2005).
These four volumes are are a monumental work of scholarship. They are mandatory reading for anybody trying to understand the history of Argentina in the past century. The KIndle edition is excellent; I only noted strange spacing of words in a few places (probably to avoid hyphenation), a very minor point.
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La mano izquierda de Dios Tomo 4 La última dictadura 19761983 Historia política de la iglesia católica Spanish Edition eBook Horacio Verbitsky Reviews
For those who do not know the real story of "El Perro" Verbitsky's own collaboration with the Argentine armed forces during the so-called dirty "war," I suggest readers who can read Spanish check out "Horacio Verbitsky, tribulaciones de un "doble agente; EL DÍA QUE LA FUERZA AÉREA LE AGRADECIÓ POR SUS SERVICIOS) ([...]
Or my own, "Pope Francis and some still dirty secrets from Argentina's so-called dirty 'war;' When the accuser should stand among the accused" ([...]
As Jacobo Timerman (with whom I worked at Newsweek) once commented to me, how was it that his former employee Verbitsky, well known as a former Montonero intelligence official, was allowed to live undisturbed in Buenos Aires during the worst of the military repression?
To which I would add How was it that Verbitsky could be mentioned, by name, in a book he ghostwrote while supposedly in clandestinity that was published by the Air Force (in 1979) and read by the same vicious military he claimed to oppose in armed struggle, and not be bothered?
Readers, beware!
La Mano Izquierda de Dios (The Left Hand of God) continues Vigilia de Armas (see my review). It covers the period 1976 to 1983 of the last military dictatorship in Argentina. In 1976 the Dirty War was raging; it targeted every kind of leftist or progressive, real or suspected and cost many thousands of dead and disappeared. The military and the police were ready. For more than ten years they had learned from French officers responsible for torture and assassination in Algeria and from their US counterparts in the School of the Americas in Panama. The plan the military implanted was not unlike the Phoenix Program in Vietnam; it contemplated the assassination of all "subversives" with any capacity for leadership (including high school students demonstrating for reduced bus fares), the systematic use of torture for obtaining information and the disappearance of victims, so relatives would never know their fate. In other cases, mangled corpses were left in public places to instill fear. The ideological underpinning for these horrors was provided by local prophets of hate, fanatic Catholics that identified the military with Crusaders and denied every right to their adversaries.
The military underwent a descensus averni fully shared by the hierarchy of the Church. The latter knew about many disappearances and murders but kept silent; in fact, some priests collaborated with the executioners. Incredibly, the hierarchy also chose to ignore attacks on its own personnel; during the military dictatorship two bishops and almost forty priests were assassinated. Needless to say, no help came from the Vatican, especially after the election of Pope John Paul II in 1978, who entirely subordinated Church policy to the the geopolitical machinations of the US and was intent in suppressing Third World priests and Liberation Theology at any cost.
After the Malvinas/Falklands war the military regime imploded. The Church was active in the coverup of the crimes; compromising documents disappeared, and the hierarchy even tried to offer the dying dictatorship a dignified exit under "forgive and forget" exhortations. They failed; in 1984 a report called Nunca Mas = Never Again began exposing the horrors of the Dirty War and many other accounts appeared later. Still, many of the guilty were able to evade punishment under amnesty laws passed by various governments. These laws were derogated by the regimes of Néstor and Cristina Kirchner and, finally, mass trials began to take place. The credibility of the Church (along with that of the military) is now at its lowest point in history (the same can be said of the Vatican, reeling from its misuse by John Paul II and many other scandals). New details on the Dirty War are surfacing daily, and some involve priests. One intriguing question that this book touches upon is the actuation of Jorge Mario Bergoglio (now Pope Francis) under the military dictatorship and after; Bergoglio was Provincial Superior of the Jesuit Order in Argentina since 1973. Verbitsky has treated this subject in other books such as El Silencio (The Silence, 2005).
These four volumes are are a monumental work of scholarship. They are mandatory reading for anybody trying to understand the history of Argentina in the past century. The KIndle edition is excellent; I only noted strange spacing of words in a few places (probably to avoid hyphenation), a very minor point.
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