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Argentine poet Juan Gelman writes a powerful letter to the grandchild he's yet to meet
In 1976, shortly after a coup that saw the President of Argentina, Isabel Martínez de Perón, replaced by a military dictatorship, the life of celebrated Argentine poet Juan Gelman darkened immeasurably when his son and daughter-in-law—Marcelo, 20, and María Claudia, an 18-year-old expectant mother—were kidnapped…
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