Carta al coronel

“If you investigate, you won’t like it.” That’s how Alexandra García Tabernero was warned about a relative’s dark past. With a powerful voice, her first book traces her training in international law, from her studies on Nuremberg to her work as a prosecutor in Spain, including her time at Harvard and her work at the International Criminal Court and the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. But it is also a personal investigation that takes her across the Atlantic, in search of answers about who Reinaldo Tabernero was and how far his hands were stained. Letter to the Colonel is the true story of the journey the author undertakes when she discovers she is related by blood and surname to a colonel who ended up imprisoned, according to the media, investigated for crimes committed during the last Argentine dictatorship—crimes she has dedicated herself to fighting. It is a letter addressed to a relative and, above all, to individual and collective memory. An honest and captivating text that seamlessly blends the reconstruction of the past with profound reflections on justice.