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Rodolfo Jorge Walsh (January 9, 1927 – March 25, 1977) was an Argentine writer and journalist of Irish descent, considered the founder of investigative journalism. He is most famous for his Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta, which he published the day before his murder, protesting that Argentina's last civil-military dictatorship's economic policies were having an even greater and disastrous effect on ordinary Argentines than its widespread human rights abuses.
In 1960 he went to Cuba, where together with Jorge Masetti Walsh founded the Prensa Latina press agency. By then he had close ties to the CGT de los Argentinos. It has been proposed that he decrypted a CIA telex referring to the upcoming Bay of Pigs invasion, helping Fidel Castro to prepare for the supposedly secret operation.[sup][1][/sup] Back in Argentina, in 1973 Walsh joined the Montoneros guerrilla radical group, but eventually began to question the views of the organization, and so decided to fight back the new dictatorship that arose in 1976 by the use of words instead of guns, then writing his famous Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta.[sup][2][/sup] Four years later, on March 25, 1977, he was mortally wounded during a shoot-out with a special military group that set an ambush for him. Walsh's body and some of his writings were kidnapped and never seen again, and he is remembered as a desaparecido, as well as a victim of State-sponsored terrorism.
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In 1960 he went to Cuba, where together with Jorge Masetti Walsh founded the Prensa Latina press agency. By then he had close ties to the CGT de los Argentinos. It has been proposed that he decrypted a CIA telex referring to the upcoming Bay of Pigs invasion, helping Fidel Castro to prepare for the supposedly secret operation.[sup][1][/sup] Back in Argentina, in 1973 Walsh joined the Montoneros guerrilla radical group, but eventually began to question the views of the organization, and so decided to fight back the new dictatorship that arose in 1976 by the use of words instead of guns, then writing his famous Open Letter from a Writer to the Military Junta.[sup][2][/sup] Four years later, on March 25, 1977, he was mortally wounded during a shoot-out with a special military group that set an ambush for him. Walsh's body and some of his writings were kidnapped and never seen again, and he is remembered as a desaparecido, as well as a victim of State-sponsored terrorism.
Any relationship with living or dead persons is purely coincidental
