Facts: - birth name: rodolfo jorge walsh gil - death date: march 25 , 1977 - birth date: 9 january 1927 - name: rodolfo walsh - image: rodolfo walsh2.jpg - birth place: lamarque , rio negro , argentina - occupation: writer , journalist , activist Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of rodolfo walsh .
rodolfo jorge walsh -lrb- january 9 , 1927-march 25 , 1977 -rrb- was an argentine writer , considered the founder of investigative journalism .he is most famous for his '' open letter from a writer to the military junta '' which he wrote the day before his murder , protesting that their economic policies were having an even greater effect on ordinary argentines than their human rights abuses .he was murdered on march 25 , 1977 .born in in lamarque , walsh finished his primary education in a small town in rio negro province , from where he moved to buenos aires in 1941 , where he completed high school .although he started studying philosophy at university , he abandoned it and held a number of different jobs , mostly as a writer or editor .between 1944 and 1945 he joined the '' alianza libertadora nacionalista '' , a movement he later denounced as '' nazi '' .in 1953 he received the buenos aires municipal literature award for his book '' variaciones en rojo '' .after initially supporting the revolucion libertadora which overthrew juan peron in 1955 , by 1956 he rejected the hard-line policies of the military government of aramburu .in 1957 he finished '' operacion masacre '' , an investigative work on the illegal execution of peron 's sympathizers during an ill-fated attempt at restoring peronism to power in june 1956 .in 1960 he went to cuba , where , together with jorge masetti , he founded the prensa latina press agency .he was then close to the '' cgt de los argentinos '' .while in cuba , it has been proposed that he decrypted a cia telex referring to the upcoming bay of pigs invasion , helping castro prepare for the supposedly secret operation .back in argentina , in 1973 walsh joined the montoneros radical group , but eventually began to question the views of the organization .four years later he was killed during a shoot-out with a special military group that set an ambush for him .his body and some of his writings were never seen again .four films have been based on his work , including...