Making a Terrorist

Silvia Labayru, the subject of Leila Guerriero’s investigative report La llamada, became a leftist domestic terrorist at the age of 18. Her organization, Montoneros, was like today’s Antifa. Hilariously, it was funded by the same people who fund Antifa today and for the same purpose.

Like most of revolutionaries everywhere, Labayru was a child of extraordinary privilege. The society she wanted to destroy was the one that gave her luxury, comfort, exotic travel, a high degree of material well-being, and amazing prospects. She told herself that she was motivated by a desire to help the underprivileged, but whenever she had to spend 15 minutes in the company of said underprivileged, she would realize that she found them disgusting, badly smelling, noisy, and very annoying.

What was it, then, that made such a young woman so angry that she would be willing to lay down her life to manifest her unhappiness? It becomes very clear what drove Labayru’s rage when you read about the family she comes from. Her father was a high-ranking officer in the military, but he and his wife were extremely liberal, even in today’s terms, in every aspect of their lives. Suffice it to say that Labayru’s mother was one of those abortion fetishists. We rarely talk about such women, but they most certainly exist. They get pregnant in order to have abortions and tell everybody about that. They derive some sort of a weird sexual enjoyment from both the abortion and from shocking others by these narratives. Since her very early childhood, Labayru was regaled with stories of her mother’s endless abortions. She started getting into the fetish herself, getting purposefully pregnant, and then aborting until her first husband put an end to the insanity and forced her to stop doing it.

La llamada (and my retelling of it for those who can’t read it) is valuable, in part, because it demonstrates to us what goes on in the wealthy families that produce domestic tourists. And it’s truly shocking.