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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. That author from this country included a “Report on the Blind” in the novel On Heroes and Tombs. A man from this country feels like “another person… 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 (-5[1])in the footnotes of that novel from this country. In this country, Molina retells movies to his cellmate, (10[2])the political (10[1])prisoner (10[1])Valentín, in Kiss of the Spider Woman. For 10 points, name this home country of Ernesto Sabato and Manuel Puig ■END■ (10[1]0[2])

ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina] (The report is the Nunca Más report.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Kevin ParkClaremont AMichigan State A96-5
Isaac OlsonUW ASorbonne11410
Deepak MuthyalaTexas A&M AAppalachian State11410
Russell NipUBC ATexas A&M B11610
Jisoon YooTexas AIowa A11710
Owen AshbrookIowa BRice A1380
Aswath KaraiMichigan State AClaremont A13810
Rahul KumarRice AIowa B1380