Two years before that, in 1 978, the football World Cup held in Argentina had enabled the blood-stained Videla dictatorship to establish itself by crushing all dissent, smashing all opposition, arresting people en masse and cutting up opponents with chainsaws 300 yards from the River Plate stadium in Buenos Aires. The roaring of the crowds in the stadium drowned the screams of the tortured; local fans, their awareness and conscience mutilated by football, fervently applauded their national team which finally emerged victorious, giving the dictatorship a further boost. Football, that modern emotional plague, was doing its job.
Posted on: Tue, 03 Jun 2014 16:21:33 +0000