“The crypt was a memorial for victims of the regime; she would lie with her peers, after all.”
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What the World’s Most Controversial Herbicide Is Doing to Rural Argentina
After enormous lobbying efforts, Monsanto’s GMO soybeans, treated with Roundup, became the country’s largest export, as cancer rates and other health issues skyrocketed.
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The Tears and Tenacity of the Mothers of the Disappeared
During the ’70s and early ’80s, 30,000 people “disappeared” during Argentina’s Dirty War — including Delia’s pregnant daughter, Stella. What happened to baby Martín?
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One Novelist Remembers Her Moment
The cover was striking: it showed a syringe. On the back cover one character leaned over a table, snorting cocaine. The calls from radio stations began, the advertising spots, the letters, above all the letters. Girls telling me about their first acid trip. Gay guys who’d been thrown out of their houses. Girls in love […]