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An author from this country investigated the state-sanctioned shooting of 12 men for the pioneering nonfiction novel Operation Massacre. As chair of a government commission, an author wrote the prologue to a report discussing events in this country that should “never again” occur. (-5[1])That author from this country included a “Report on the Blind” in the novel (10[1])On Heroes and Tombs. A man from this country feels like “another person… (10[1])out of danger” after sleeping with a leftist rebel who dreams of being on an island with Marta. Marxist theory is connected to the psychoanalysis of homosexuality in the footnotes of that novel from this country. In this country, Molina retells movies to his (10[1])cellmate, the political prisoner Valentín, in Kiss of the Spider Woman. (10[1])For 10 points, (-5[1])name this home country of Ernesto Sabato and Manuel Puig (10[1])■END■ (10[1]0[3])

ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina] (The report is the Nunca Más report.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Enoch YuenImperial AWarwick42-5
Omer KeskinOxford AOxford B5610
James CarrigyEdinburghCambridge B6910
Michael KohnDurham ACambridge A11310
Andrew FisherSheffieldOxford C12410
Carlos DoebeliImperial BCambridge C127-5
Kevin FlanaganBristolDurham B13710
Thomas HartWarwickImperial A13810
Andrei HuiCambridge CImperial B1380
Alessandro BogoKCLKiel1380
Ian DewanKielKCL1380