{"product_id":"la-llamada-leila-guerriero","title":"The Call, Leila Guerriero","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn the late 1960s, at the age of thirteen, Argentine Silvia Labayru was a shy, book-loving, animal-loving teenager, an admirer of John F. Kennedy, and the daughter of a military family that included her father, an Air Force member and civilian pilot. At that age, she entered the prestigious public institution Colegio Nacional Buenos Aires, where she came into contact with left-wing student groups and transformed into a fierce militant. In March 1976, a coup d'état occurred in Argentina, marking the beginning of a military dictatorship. By then, five months pregnant and twenty years old, Labayru was part of the Intelligence sector of the Montoneros organization, an armed Peronist group. On December 29, 1976, she was kidnapped by the military and taken to ESMA, the Navy Mechanics School, which operated as a clandestine detention center where thousands of people were tortured and murdered. There, she gave birth to her daughter, who, a week later, was handed over to her paternal grandparents. At ESMA, Labayru was tortured, forced into slave labor, repeatedly raped by an officer, and coerced into playing the role of sister to Alfredo Astiz, a Navy member who had infiltrated the Madres de Plaza de Mayo organization, an operation that resulted in three Mothers and two French nuns disappearing. She was released in June 1978, and on the plane to Madrid, with her eighteen-month-old daughter, she thought: \"The hell is over.\" But the hell had not ended. Argentinians in exile repudiated her, accusing her of betrayal due to the disappearance of the Mothers. Abhorred by those who had been her comrades in activism, supported by a few loyal friends exiled in Europe, she made a life for herself. Until 2018, when a man who had been her partner in the seventies contacted her from Buenos Aires, and in a sequence where family manipulations that twisted fate merge, a story began to unfold that continues to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJournalist Leila Guerriero began interviewing her in 2021, while awaiting the verdict of the first trial for crimes of sexual violence committed against women kidnapped during the dictatorship, in which Labayru was a plaintiff. Over nearly two years, she spoke with her friends, ex-partners, current partner, children, and fellow captives and militants. The result is a portrait of a woman with a complex story in which love, sex, violence, humor, children, parents, infidelity, politics, friends, moves, and a phone call made from ESMA on March 14, 1977, that saved her life, all intertwine.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Sur Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44259326459955,"sku":"9788433922069","price":55.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0688\/4281\/5539\/files\/lallamada.jpg?v=1778289666","url":"https:\/\/www.surbooks.com.au\/en\/products\/la-llamada-leila-guerriero","provider":"Sur Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}