Looking for Alicia The Unfinished Life of an Argentinian Rebel

The life and legacy of a young Argentinian woman whose disappearance in 1976 haunts those she left behind

It started with a coincidence--when Marc Raboy happened to discover that he shared a surname with a young leftwing Argentinian journalist who in June 1976 was ambushed by a rightwing death squad while driving with her family in the city of Mendoza. Alicia's partner, the celebrated poet and fellow
Montonero Francisco “Paco” Urondo, was killed on the spot. Their baby daughter was taken and placed in an orphanage. Her daughter ultimately rescued but Alicia was never heard from again. In Looking for Alicia, Raboy pursues her story not simply to learn what happened when the post-Perón government
in Argentina turned to state terror, but to understand what drove Alicia and others to risk their lives to oppose it. Author and subject share not only a surname--a distant ancestral connection--but youthful rebellion, journalistic ambition, and the radical politics that were a hallmark of the
1960s. Their destinies diverged through a combination of choice and circumstance.

Using family archives, interviews with those who knew her, and transcripts from the 2011 trial of former Argentine security forces personnel involved in her disappearance, Raboy reassembles Alicia's story. He supplements his narrative with documents from Argentina's attempts to deal with the legacy
of the military dictatorship, such as the 1984 report of the National Commission on the Disappearance of Persons, Nunca Más (“Never Again”); as well as secret diplomatic correspondence recently made public through the U.S. State Department's Argentina Declassification Project. Looking for Alicia
immerses readers in the years of the so-called “Dirty War,” which, decades later, cast their shadow still. It also gives an unforgettably human face to the many thousands who disappeared during that dark era, those they left behind, and the power of the memories that bind them.

Marc Raboy is Beaverbrook Professor Emeritus in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. He is the author or editor of some twenty books, including Marconi: The Man Who Networked the World (Oxford University Press) as well as a number of articles. He lives in
Montreal.

Prologue - “So, Are We Related?”

Chapter 1 - ¡Presente!

Chapter 2 - Names, Places, And Pogroms

Chapter 3 - Ñuque And Teresa

Chapter 4 - The Rebel Of Villa Crespo

Chapter 5 - The Making Of A Seventies Radical

Chapter 6 - The Soldiers of Perón

Chapter 7 - Noticias

Chapter 8 - The Poet of The Revolution

Chapter 9 - Cuba

Chapter 10 - Underground

Chapter 11 - The Coup

Chapter 12 - Mendoza

Chapter 13 - Aftermath

Chapter 14 - And What Did They Want for Their Daughter?

Chapter 15 - The Reckoning

Chapter 16 - In the Inferno

Chapter 17 - Unfinished Business


Acknowledgments
Appendix: Testimony of Survivors Of D2
Chronology of Events
Glossary
List of Acronyms
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index