TIL my high school in Argentina (class of '93) had a book burning 7 days after the 1976 military coup. April 2: A lieutenant toured the library, removed 19 books by Marx, Engels, Aguirre, Godio, Martí and burned them in the courtyard in view of students. laizquierdadiario.com/Los-libros-que…
"The campfire was accompanied by the subsequent disappearance of 12 students, with dozens of boys expelled and several teachers dismissed." Years later, the students accused their former director Tránsito Rigatuso of having kept “blacklists” of both books and students.
The burning of books became a recurring practice. In most cases, the "purifying rituals" - as they called them - were performed in public places, with witnesses and photographers. The cases in Córdoba and Sarandí were filmed and disseminated to the public.
Cases of book burnings are known in Entre Ríos, Buenos Aires (90,000 books), Rosario (80,000 books) and in 1980, the destruction of 1.5 million books and magazines edited by the CEAL (Centro de Estudios de América Latina) laizquierdadiario.com/Los-libros-que… 
