Obituary Note: Argentine Poet Juan Gelman

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Argentine Poet Juan Gelman, "who denounced the country's 'dirty war' of the '70s and '80s," died Tuesday, NPR reported. Author of more than 20 collections of poetry and a prominent journalist, Gelman won the Cervantes Prize in 2007. He fled Argentina shortly before a military dictatorship took power in a 1976 coup d'état.