Walsh in Avellaneda

The memory of the survivors of La Real

Abstract

This article reconstructs the look that survivors of May 13, 1966, had on the writer and journalist Rodolfo Walsh, when Blajakis, Zalazar and García were murdered at the La Real confectionery in the city of Avellaneda, province of Buenos Aires. In particular, the memories of Francisco Alonso are rescued, who related to the writer from the research he conducted on that event, and who later published in the book “Who killed Rosendo?” It is about reversing the perspective presented in the book, where Walsh describes the men who were present that night at La Real, and focus on the memories of the book's protagonists about the author. The oral history methodology is used in this work. The oral sources are analyzed with the objective of rescuing the subjectivity of those who were interviewed by Walsh, and the links they established with him from that investigation, as a contribution to the construction of the memory of the writer disappeared in 1977.