"In Latin America, we learn early that our lives are worth little." - Laura Yusem, 1990.
In the early eighties, while we norteamericanos found our national horror in Flock of Seagulls videos, Argentina endured a different kind of ordeal: an archipelago of concentration camps where thousands of kidnapped suspected leftists, populists and Jews were tortured to death. Margeurite Feitlowitz's A Lexicon of Terror documents the nightmares of which our popular culture has spared us knowledge.