Editing Jorge Luis Borges (section)

===Military junta===
During the 1970s, Borges at first expressed support for [[National Reorganization Process|Argentina's military junta]], but was scandalized by the junta's actions during the [[Dirty War]]. In protest against their support of the regime, Borges ceased publishing in the newspaper ''[[La Nación]]''.<ref>[[Willis Barnstone]], ''With Borges on an Ordinary Evening in Buenos Aires'', [[University of Illinois]] Press, 1993, pp. 30–31.<!-- ISSN/ISBN needed, if any --></ref> In 1985, he wrote a short poem about the [[Falklands War]] called ''Juan López y John Ward'', about two fictional soldiers (one from each side), who died in the Falklands, in which he refers to "islands that were too famous". He also said about the war: "The Falklands thing was a fight between two bald men over a comb."<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2010/feb/19/falkland-islands-editorial Falkland Islands: Imperial pride], theguardian.com, 19 February 2010.</ref>

Borges was an observer at the trials of the military junta in 1985 and wrote that "not to judge and condemn the crimes would be to encourage impunity and to become, somehow, its accomplice."<ref name="Salinas" /> Borges added that "the news of the missing people, the crimes and atrocities [the military] committed" had inspired him to return to his earlier Emersonian faith in democracy.<ref name="Salinas" />