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Rodolfo Walsh

Operación Masacre (English: "Operation Massacre") is a nonfiction novel of investigative journalism, written by noted Argentine journalist and author Rodolfo Walsh. It is considered by some to be the first of its genre. It was published in 1957, nine years before the publication of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, a book often credited as the first major non fiction novel of investigative journalism.

The book details the José León Suárez massacre, which involved the June 9, 1956 unlawful capture and shooting by the Buenos Aires Province Police of a group of civilians suspected of being involved with a Peronist uprising that same night, including the rebel leader, General Juan José Valle. Walsh claims that the men were arrested before the establishment in that very same night of the martial law and that they also were never properly charged, therefore they were unlawfully shot. These events followed a 1955 military coup, known as Revolución Libertadora ("the Liberating Revolution"), which deposed Argentine president Juan Domingo Perón and eventually brought the right-wing dictatorship to power, led first by Lieutenant General Eduardo Lonardi -who was considered too "lenient" (with Peronism) by the leaders of the coup and quickly deposed- and later by the hard-line General Pedro Eugenio Aramburu.

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