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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. (10[1])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 (10[1])to the psychoanalysis of homosexuality in the footnotes of that (10[1])novel from this country. In this country, Molina retells movies to his cellmate, the political prisoner (10[1])Valentín, in Kiss of the Spider Woman. (10[1])For 10 points, name this home country of Ernesto Sabato and Manuel Puig ■END■

ANSWER: Argentina [or Argentine Republic or República Argentina] (The report is the Nunca Más report.)
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Andrew HannaPennJohns Hopkins6010
Andre WongColumbia CNYU A9110
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Tom Doyle (UG)VassarNYU B12410