My entire country was transformed into a single, numerous death that at first seemed intolerable and that was later accepted with indifference and oblivion
Tomás Eloy Martínez, 'Lugar común la muerte' (1979)

Under the bushes / in the tall grass / on the bridges / in the canals / there are corpses
Néstor Perlongher, 'Cadáveres' (1981)

At what age can you start torturing a child?
Martín Kohan, 'Dos veces junio' (2002)

Terror does not operate solely on the victims, but fundamentally on society as a whole
Daniel Feierstein, 'Genocide as a social practice' (2007)

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