Abortion and the Midwife

Héctor Vila
The Uncanny

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On a mild autumn day in Rosario, the largest city in the central Argentine province of Santa Fe, on the west bank of the Paraná River, on May 14, 1928, Liberata Baroni, my great grandmother and midwife, eased into the world Ernesto Guevara, the future Che.

Dr. Ernesto “Che” Guevara was radicalized by the poverty, hunger, and disease he witnessed during his Latin American travels; he joined Raúl and Fidel Castro’s 26 of

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