Precious Argentine Library In Peril

Victoria Ocampo collected one of the finest collections of Latin American books. “Before her death in 1979, Ocampo donated her magnificent villa in San Isidro, on the outskirts of Buenos Aires, and its library to Unesco to create a literary and cultural center. But the project has remained a dead letter, the villa has deteriorated into serious disrepair, and as many as a thousand books may have disappeared. ” How to save them?