Mar del Plata, Nazi UFOs and Opus Dei — a new book of chronicles that continues its exploration of the Atlantic coast of Buenos Aires, a territory where history, delirium, and the remains of the past coexist with a singular intensity. The journey narrated in the book covers a geographical arc that runs from Punta Mogotes to Chapadmalal, and from Miramar and Mar del Sud to Centinela del Mar. The journey, which symbolically sets sail from Cabo Corrientes, advances among windy beaches, abandoned sites, and accounts that overflow with tourism to venture into a zone of cultural, political, and mythical frontier. Along this path appear visionary entrepreneurs from the Belle Époque, crew members of the Kriegsmarine, allegedly radioactive waters, a heir to the British throne with fascist sympathies, paranormal phenomena in Miramar, streams, remains of megafauna, UFOs, and Nazis. Buenos Aires, January 12 (NA) – Writer and journalist Facundo Di Genova published Salvaje Sudeste. Mar del Sud, Jewish gauchos and fleeing Nazis (2021), where Di Genova investigated the myth of a children's cemetery erased from the map and documented the finding of a Nazi treasurer's tombstone near the Hotel Boulevard Atlántico. In this second installment, the focus expands and adds equally extravagant protagonists: unhinged innovators, miracle sellers, Nazi financiers, imprescriptible criminals, and romantic vigilantes. With a precise and documentary prose, Salvaje Sudeste proposes a reading that borders on fiction, but is grounded in facts, archives, and real journeys. Di Genova, born in Buenos Aires in 1975, once again demonstrates that the Argentine Atlantic coast holds stories as uncomfortable as they are fascinating, where the pampa ends and the sea begins. The author describes the area as a point of condensation of energies, 'as if the end of the plain and the beginning of the ocean together generate a force that does not exist in other places.'
