In this book of previously published articles from newspapers we see two Argentinas. The first one two decades ago, a country sick of wars, dictatorships, and corruption celebrated the return of democracy. The candidate who prevailed portrayed hope and optimism in his campaign speeches; the illusions and hopes for the future grew strong. Twenty years later, we see a completely different Argentina; a country with long lines at consulates’ doors, one where too many have lost so much sleep trying to survive that they have forgotten to live.
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The Argentine-born Martinez is one of the greatest and least appreciated of modern Latin American writers. This is a collection of his essays from the dark days of the `90s, when, after a few years of recovery from its dictatorship years, his country fell into a decade of political and economic corruption that was to spiral into economic and governmental disaster. Martinez calls this "The flight from Democracy" and spares no one in his critiques, not even institutional futbol nor the arrogance and self-promotion of his country-people. The pieces are elegant and mostly short and simple--accessible to those with moderate reading knowledge of Spanish.
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