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For better or worse, reporters change the lives of the people they write about. For twenty years, New York Times Op-Ed Columnist Roger Cohen believed that one of his stories had changed lives for the better. This year he discovered that he may have been wrong. Roger Cohen tells the story.
Thank you for the story about Roger Cohen following up his reporting on a tragedy from twenty years ago. I hope you keep this story in mind and follow up with Mr. Cohen if he finds out the e-mail he received was legitimate, and the history he finds from his emerging contacts.
Your story on the Miara twins brought tears to my eyes. As a native of Argentina who lived during those six years of military regime and the so-called "dirty war". I suddenly found myself experiencing the same sense of anxiety I had felt 30 years before, while attending the University of Buenos Aires, every time I learnt that a student or a professor had disappeared mysteriously just like Liliana Ross and Maria Tolosa did. I was deeply moved by your thorough analysis of this (one of so many) shameful act comitted during that time. Rest assured that your intrusion was worth it. Even if it meant all a shock for the boys, I believe they deserved to know the truth, just like the people of Argentina needed to confront this dark chapter, learn the painful lesson and move on.
I strongly support Anita Lurantos' posting.
The media is most of the time complacent and fails to truly and truthfully speak up... The mistake regarding the identity of the real mother of the kids, and the lack of a good family to raise them after they were rightfully returned is not and should not be a deterrent for the press to pursue transparency and truth!
I had also lived in terror those years in my native Buenos Aires and I am resentful for the attitude the local media had, becoming accomplices of the massive human rights violations that occurred every day! It is worth mentioning that just a few true journalists had spoken up, one of them the American born Director of the Buenos Aires Herald... but his -and a few others- voices were the exceptions that granted the rule, a vote of silence and complacency. Most of those brave journalists ended up leaving the country overnight, escaping like criminals, to avoid being murdered or kidnapped themselves. My thanks to those common people of uncommon bravery! Humanity would benefit a great deal if we had many more like them.
Slavery was indeed America’s “original sin.”
You have the gall to put this above the genocide of indigenous Americans?
You are just another white guy with pop-guilt.
tradamerica
Peigan-Croatian-Irish-African-American
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