{"id":241,"date":"2007-11-13T20:02:18","date_gmt":"2007-11-14T00:02:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/?p=241"},"modified":"2007-11-13T20:02:18","modified_gmt":"2007-11-14T00:02:18","slug":"estaba-la-madre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/241","title":{"rendered":"Estaba la Madre"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=16221023\">this story<\/a> on the radio while driving to work today. Estaba la Madre, an opera set in Argentina during the Dirty War, certainly has all the ingredients  of a riveting, gut wrenching piece &#8211; the  mothers of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Forced_disappearance#Operation_Condor_and_Argentina.27s_Dirty_War\">los desaperecidos<\/a>, the military and the Catholic Church (yet another of it&#8217;s not-finest-hours). There are no new stories under the sun &#8211; women suffering while their children are <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stabat_Mater\">tortured and killed by the state<\/a>? Archetypal &#8211; yet every single occurrence is a separate  tragedy that scars those that survive.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/skydeviler.hawkdog.net\/pub\/pix\/dirtywar.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n<p align=\"center\">*<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Estela Carlotto, whose own daughter disappeared and was later executed, says clergymen demanded money when she sought their help. Carlotto was instrumental in bringing <em>Estaba La Madre<\/em> to Argentina, an opera that captures experiences like hers. Carlotto recalls the night police summoned her to retrieve her daughter&#8217;s disfigured body.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My husband identified her. He didn&#8217;t want me [to] see her. Her face had been totally destroyed,&#8221; Carlotto says. &#8220;I wanted an autopsy, but no doctor would perform one out of fear. That injustice and that pain transformed me into a fighting woman.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And we in the US have an Attorney General who can&#8217;t bring himself to say that waterboarding is <a href=\"http:\/\/socrates.berkeley.edu\/~warcrime\/Japan\/Yokohama\/Reviews\/Yokohama_Review_Asano.htm\">torture<\/a>. I hope there&#8217;s a young genius out there who will make art to help us confront what we&#8217;ve done (and at this point, are doing).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard this story on the radio while driving to work today. Estaba la Madre, an opera set in Argentina during the Dirty War, certainly has all the ingredients of a riveting, gut wrenching piece &#8211; the mothers of los &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/archives\/241\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdqxx-3T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hawkdog.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}