Abstract
This article considers the ‘Trelew Massacre’ of August 1972 in Chubút, Argentina, through the primary prism of Tomás Eloy Martínez's journalistic account, La pasión según Trelew, first issued in 1973 and again, in a much expanded second edition, in 2009. The substantive experience of 1972 is assessed in terms of Martínez's construction of La pasión and the events of the ‘Dirty War’ (known as El Proceso by its authors) opened by the coup of March 1976. Martínez's impressive work of documentary reportage is also reconsidered in comparison with that of Rodolfo Walsh and, at deeper historical remove, that of Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, as well as in the context of Hannah Arendt's notion of ‘the banality of evil’ and a putative national history of ‘bloodletting’ in Argentina.
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